Comment Re:CHECKLISTS! (Score 2, Informative) 215
Background on medical checklists saving lives (and yet meeting up with resistance at times from medical practitioners) in this important New Yorker piece by surgeon/writer Atul Gawande:
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/12/10/071210fa_fact_gawande?currentPage=all
Gawande now has a book out about checklists called "The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right" that expands on this and also describes the usefulness of checklists in other areas: http://www.amazon.com/Checklist-Manifesto-How-Things-Right/dp/0805091742 (If the topic interests you, btw, Amazon apparently is selling this $24.50 hardcover book for only $10).
Journal Journal: Functional Programming in PHP
http://www.newmediacampaigns.com/page/map-and-reduce-implemented-in-php
http://commonphp.blogspot.com/ (from a Hacker News discussion about the first link above: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=782370)
Journal Journal: Debugging Bash Scripts (bash -x and more tips)
Journal Journal: High Scalability links
Journal Journal: HBase Links
Journal Journal: Hadoop links
Journal Journal: Memcached Links (inc. the rant about proper usage, etc.)
Proper (and Improper) Usage of Memcached
http://joped.com/2009/03/a-rant-about-proper-memcache-usage/
Journal Journal: Jailer--tool for extracting db data, keeping ref. integrity
Journal Journal: 10 Free Video-editing Packages for Ubuntu
Journal Journal: Turning a PHP script into a .EXE for Free
Journal Journal: All about 301, 302 and 307 server redirects
Journal Journal: List of screencasting tools for various platforms
http://blog.procasts.co.uk/2009/03/choosing-your-screencast-software/
Includes web-based services, Linux app, etc.
Journal Journal: 145 Cheat Sheets for some of most widely used tools on web
http://dreamcss.blogspot.com/2009/04/145-new-quick-cheat-sheets-for-some-of.html
Includes everything from Google to Photoshop to PHP, Ruby, JQuery, etc.
Journal Journal: Installing PHP on the Google App Engine
http://brian.brispace.net/2009/04/09/php-on-google-app-engine/
There's a link around the end of the comments to a sample app too.