Padraic Brady: The-M-in-MVC-Why-Models-are-Misunderstood-and-Unappreciated
This article on the mvc debate criticizes the Zend Framework in particular for allowing controllers to become huge monsters and pseudo models and argues for a fat model, small controller architecture in MVC applications.
Link to extern page: http://blog.astrumfutura.com/archives/373-The-M-in-MVC-Why-Models-are-Misunderstood-and-Unappreciated.html

Defying Classification: Removing The Model-View-Controller Straitjacket
And the MVC debate again, this time bashing django in particular and all other web frameworks implictly. Models in most PHP frameworks don\'t exist, they have to be programmed by you.
Link to extern page: http://www.pointy-stick.com/blog/2008/11/30/removing-model-view-controller-straitjacket/

Particletree: Object Oriented PHP Memory Concerns
Very good article on how PHP Objects use memory and which behaviour you want to circumvent and why you don\'t want to use objects all the time (keyword: PHP is not Java). The comments gave me a great idea on using Iterators for database resultsets that allow to run over your results but return objects without using more memory than the traditional array solution.
Link to extern page: http://particletree.com/notebook/object-oriented-php-memory-concerns/

Devolio: Filtering with PHP Internal functions
PHP offers a range of very powerful filtering functions. You dont have to use a Frameworks Capacity for this functionality.
Link to extern page: http://devolio.com/blog/archives/413-Data-Filtering-Using-PHPs-Filter-Functions-Part-one.html

Rasmus Lerdorf: Simple is Hard
I attended FROSCON this weekend where Rasmus Lerdorf gave this Keynote talk about how Frameworks make PHP ever more and more complex and how that is not a good development.
Link to extern page: http://talks.php.net/show/froscon08/

Dasprids: Getting a Password Hidden from Stdin with PHP CLI
I always wanted to have the possiblity to prompot a user for a password, inputted silently on the shell in PHP. This is working for Linux and uses shell_exec, but is otherwise great. Thank you very much Dasprid!
Link to extern page: http://www.dasprids.de/blog/2008/08/22/getting-a-password-hidden-from-stdin-with-php-cli

SOS Blog: Writing a Django Template Widget With Dojo Data Stores
Quite complex/complete tutorial on the Dojox DTL parser.
Link to extern page: http://shaneosullivan.wordpress.com/2008/03/03/writing-a-django-template-widget-with-dojo-data-stores/#more-91

MysqlPerformanceBlog: Quick Tip - SQL Batches using Maatkit and mk-find
This tip is awesome. I use maatkit for most of my DB administrating works too, but never bothered to look up all the functionality, essentially missing how useful mk-find is.
Link to extern page: http://www.mysqlperformanceblog.com/2008/07/30/quick-tip-how-to-convert-tables-to-innodb/

Dojo Forum Response: Simple Ajax+JSON Example
Why can\'t I find something this simple in the documentation (or why is it hidden so deep in the documentation that I cannot find there by a few clicks?)
Link to extern page: http://dojotoolkit.org/forum/dojo-core-dojo-0-9/dojo-core-support/dojo1-0-ajax-example#comment-8893

IBuildings Blog: Dependency Injection and ZF Controllers
Very good article about composition in object oriented programmming and why dependency injection rather than Singleton or Global retrievial of objects is a good method to unit-test classes that depend on complex sub-objects through composition. I came accross the problems described several times during the little unit-testing experience I gathered, showing its subjective importance.
Link to extern page: http://www.ibuildings.com/blog/archives/1181-Dependency-Injection-and-Zend-Framework-Controllers.html

Developing With Style: It cost over 1.4 million to develop CakePHP
Rant on Ohlohs estimation of the CakePHP effort. Read my comment on how Ohloh gets it wrong using Cocomo Model estimations from the late 70s of huge business projects written in Fortran, Assembler, Cobolt and C.
Link to extern page: http://developingwithstyle.com/2008/06/05/it-cost-over-14-million-to-develop-cakephp

Destiney\'s Reality: Zend Framewok \"Web 2.0 Framework\" my ass
Lots of criticism of the Zend Framework and its loosly based on each other policy regarding classes. Also some very good points on \"too complex\" implementation and of the Zend_Db components in general.
Link to extern page: http://destiney.com/blog/zend-framework-web-2-0-framework-my-ass

Norm 2782: PHP ... what to say?
I did some reading these last days and came across some interesting articles, including this one regarding the current state of the PHP language and where it should be going. Discussion of PHP6 features vs what should be included...
Link to extern page: http://www.norm2782.com/2008/05/27/php-what-to-say/