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		potatolicious on April 30, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: PHP Commandments Isn't that just letting someone else write your helpers.php?

smacktoward on April 30, 2013 | [–]

No, it's moving debugging into a discrete, well-understood debugging package (Xdebug) rather than jumbling it together with a bunch of unrelated stuff in a big grab bag labeled "Miscellaneous".

WA on April 30, 2013 | [–]

I agree. Also, 8. (no helper functions) contradicts 1. (do the simplest thing).

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