dustin lakin 

PHP doesn't have the best reputation in the opensource community these days, and a large amount of the fuss is well deserved. It is really easy to write horrible PHP websites without any real structure. Not all PHP has to be like this.

There are a bunch of great PHP frameworks out there. While the upsides to building on a well documented and supported framework are amazing, it is often not worth the hassle for small to mid sized projects. Plus, not having to follow all the conventions that...

Use underscore.

Underscore lets you do just about anything you want with your objects and arrays. Everything from the simple _.indexOf, _.each and _.sortBy. All the way to _.map, _.filter and _.reduce. Hell, if you want to use a couple of them together, check out the chain method. Underscore makes data in javascript fun.

Template your Content.

If you are fan of MVC frameworks, you may have fallen in love with views. Why not let the client do that lifting? There are some great...