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More and more web sites and applications are incorporating the beautiful Silk icon set created by Mark James. The Gallery project provides them as one of their iconpacks and the newly redesigned Dreamhost web hosting control panel also sports these spiffy icons. Since the icons are released under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.5 license, anyone can use them provided Mark receives proper credit.

Without conducting any formal research I am certain of a correlation of the size of electronic devices and the frequency these devices are accidentally run through the wash. I began to prove this theory when I left my new bluetooth ear piece in a shirt pocket to be run through the wash. The ear piece not only survived the wash, but also the heat of the clothes dryer. I recently provided additional proof to my theory, but it didn't look as if I'd be as lucky the second time.

Okay, maybe I exagerate a bit, but if you're developing PHP that others need to decipher, commenting your code is a must. Heck, I'm finding that code documentation for myself is a saving grace when revisiting what I've written months, or even a week later. So, to help you and I, I've created a phpDoc cheatsheet that's ready to download in either PDF or PNG format.

After thinking about doing it for many months, I finally converted 2tbsp.com from Wordpress 2 to Drupal 5. I didn't make this move because of anything wrong with Wordpress. Wordpress worked great for the past few years and is an excellent application. The truth is that I am working with Drupal too much now to not use it to power 2tbsp.com.

My goal was to do the migration as quickly as possible with few additions or changes. With the migration now complete, I thought I'd share the basic process I went through.

I've been meaning to backup my sites' databases for quite some time now. Today I was finally overcome with guilt and the fear of something going horrible wrong, so I finally decided to put a backup script into place. My hosting provider provides backups, and fortunately I've never needed to request a restore. You may ask "Then why are you worried about backups?". The answer is simple—there are some things you should count on in this world–things will go wrong from time to time. Yes, my hosting provider is a reliable and stable company providing a reliable and stable hosting environment, but things can change, and one should always be prepared.