The Eve Online universe is under going some updates at the moment, so I am not able to play for the moment (and I really need an active server to be testing API calls from the Eve API). So I am just going to say to all....

If you haven't heard of Eve Online or it's sheer massiveness... you must be hiding under a huge rock in a deep dark cavern somewhere =)

If you haven't heard the news you have probably been hiding under a really big rock. The world is facing a global recession and possibily a depression. Apart from the fact that I am loving the freelance work from the US (due to the USD to AUD exchange rate), it also means my server in Montreal, Canada is at risk due to the huge conversion rate.

There are a few ramifications involved with this price difference, and I will explain them.

Every now and again I say Awesomtastic at something, usually it is a once off and then I have a silent appreciation for it there after. However there is one subject / technology that gets me consistently saying Awesometastic!

jQuery, a degradable Javascript library capable of tagging onto css ids and classes to remove the unsightly inline Javascript from your incredibly complex website (or even your personal blog).

Through my few years of being a professional PHP programmer it has become apparent that not a lot of people benchmark their code. And therefore, they have no idea where a project could be optimised or sped up.

There is a simple solution. From the PHPClasses.org website there is a class called Benchmark, and I have been using it for all of my custom development lately. So what does it do and how can it help you write more efficient code?