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A really useful thing to have when you are programming, writing html or just trying to find the syntax of a command in mysql, is a cheat sheet. A great site that lists a large number of useful cheat sheets is cheat-sheet.org. Worth checking out!

I've been having a close look at web frameworks recently. As my programming has matured, I've gone from spaghetti and hacking right through to well-structured, modular programs and I'm now religiously keeping my logic separate from my design. I see web frameworks as the next step in this evolution. Frameworks allow you to take advantage of other people's work (and that has to be a good thing!). If you work within the framework's parameters you can program your application with very little code. You will end up with a well-structured program that is simple, and easy for someone else to work out what you have done.