Fundamentally: The Increasing Charms of the Roth Approach
480022
In todayÂs self-directed retirement system, it is important to keep tabs on details that can have a big impact on your retirement savings.
62130
In response to a previous article from the Symfony blog, Paul Jones has pulled together some thoughts to some of the comments they made.   As the author of a relatively popular benchmarking article, I feel compelled to respond to this bit of misguided analysis from the Symfony camp about benchmarks.   Paul talks about the "straw-man arguments" presented in the Symfony article, including some references to Paul's previous benchmarks. He's even broken it down into a point-by-point response to make each point clear.
522696
Falls just shy of the magic number -- is it too much yet?
437157
The Zend Developer Zone has posted a review of Theo Schlossnagle's book from the Developer's Library series "Scalable Internet Architectures".   I had the pleasure of meeting Theo Schlossnagle at OSCON 2006. He gave me 30 minutes to peek inside his brain and do an interview. 30 minutes just was not enough time. So when I received his latest book in the mail I was excited. Finally a chance to get more in-depth on some of the topics we covered. I've taken the time to collect my thoughts for you here so you can decide whether this book is a good one for you.   Cal talks about how he hated the book (from a reviewer's perspective, not a developer), the contents of the book, and his personal favorite section - "Distributed Databases are Easy, Just Read the Fine Print". His only critism is that the book seems to come across in a "demanding" tone (misunderstood by those that don't know Theo's style as just being matter of fact).
203640
A strategy to cope with the market's malaise.
557413
Dating, negotiating, fragging and making money.  Play and its consequences.
225897
Irregular hors d'ouevres, scheduling mishaps, and the stockbroker's eternal dilemma.
235871
Here's one surefire way to sandbag your portfolio.
461840
New research reveals a vital investment trait.
308295
How to minimize risk while hanging onto the potential reward in small-cap investing.
338910
Given at the University of Regensburg on Sept. 12, 2006
247318
The tried-and-true way to pick the market's best stocks.
12717
Comparing Asta Funding to Portfolio Recovery Associates.
716782
Nutrition, obsession, global business:  an exploration of our second most basic desire.
144820
Comings and goings in the financial industry.
581950
A refresher course on getting better mileage
562776
A different sort of abstraction layer project has been started up and has already seen a few releases - Forage. As mentioned on Rob Young's blog:    Recently I've been working on a search abstraction library for PHP called Forage. The idea is to bring to search what we've had for relational databases for quite a while, abstraction.    On Friday I put up a preview release with three backends; Solr, Xapian and Zend Search Lucene. At the moment it has the bare minimum of features but there will be more soon. In this post I'm going to talk a little about the motivation for the project and then walk through a short example.    He talks about the need for search abstraction (integration and resilience to change) before getting into an example of some code that grabs the data from an RSS feed, passes it in to the Xapian search engine and stores it before looking it over for thier search terms ("yahoo microsoft").   You can download the library if you'd like to try it out for yourself.