Per Yahoo it's best to move your Javascript calls to right above your closing body tags since downloading scripts block parallel downloads which causes your page to take longer to download/render. (1) Now I'm not going to go into any metrics to prove this statement, we'll just have to take Yahoo's word on it.

I attended Barcamp Orlando yesterday and it was a huge success! I was only able to be there for a short period of time but I was able to attend talks on the technology behind Izea's Social Spark, a CMS panel (Drupal, Expression Engine, Wordpress & Joomla) and a discussion on Orlando's technology presence, past, present and future.

I had to compile the pecl memcache today for work on my devel system. I already had MAMP installed so I just wanted to do a pecl install ... turns out that won't work. There's a few steps you need to do first. (Note: you must have gcc installed to get this to work. Also, I won't cover installing memcached, just compiling the pecl memcache extension and tying it into php.)