As you build out your application, scalability will start become an issue. You will find yourself making queries to the database every page load cost you precious cpu and load time. The trick is to cache frequently used data so that a database query is not necessary, reducing the overhead on your server.

Choosing the right revision control system can make or break your development flow. I found this out the hard way after SVN brought our source migration process to a crawl. We will walk through the problems that most have with SVN and the migration process from SVN to Git.

When using a Multi-Environment setup for your development process it is essential to have adequate protection from outside prying eyes, but also allow people to access your public/testing sites. This .htaccess code allows you to do that.