The Midstride Solutions blog has posted five tips and tools that can help to make you a better developer (and possibly make you a faster one).

In this post, I will discuss 5 tips and tools that the php community has provided to speed up development time and improve code quality. These should help you out if you don't already know them, but if you do I would like to hear what you use to speed up your development time.

Their five tips/tools are:

• Framework with the Model View Controller (MVC)
• AJAX Frameworks
• Integrated Development Environment (IDE)
• Database Creation/Management Software
• Object Relational Mapping (ORM)

Included for each is his personal preference and recommendation.