Have you ever noticed that some of the features that make PHP so popular and useful are the very same features that come back to bite you as your project evolves and gets larger and larger?
Welcome to the first of many columns in which we'll explore the various technologies in the LAMP family. For those who aren't familiar with the acro-nym, LAMP stands for Linux, Apache, MySQL, and Perl/Python/PHP -- some of the Open Source world's "best of breed" tools.