In this recent post to his site Henrik Warne has shared a list of advice around software development and some good practices he's picked up along the way.

Here is my list of heuristics and rules of thumb for software development that I have found useful over the years.

His list includes several points related to a few main categories:

• Development
• Troubleshooting
• Cooperation (personal, not code)
• Other Miscellaneous Tips

Each main topic has a few sub-topics and each of those includes a brief description (with twenty-two tips in the list overall). There's some great advice in the list as well as some good contributions in the comments, so be sure to read through those too.

Vinu Thomas has pointed out two upcoming webinars from Zend that he thought sounded interesting - one talking about development best practices and the other on troubleshooting PHP applications.

From Zend on the development best/worst practices:

Have you ever wondered how you could advance your PHP development? Have you considered using an Integrated Development Environment (IDE), an Issue Tracker or a Version Control tool, but were concerned about how complex it might be? Taking PHP development to the next level may be easier than you think.

From Zend on the troubleshooting techniques:

Understanding what's causing your PHP application to be slow or just break is often time-consuming, and almost always frustrating. Join this information-packed webinar, delivered by a senior Zend PHP consultant, to learn what techniques PHP professionals use for pinpointing PHP issues in development, testing and production

There are others happening this month as well including one on internationalization with the Zend Framework and a look at the Zend Server for IBM i.