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?