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Yes, my class Phonetic won the first place of the PHPClasses Innovation Award.

Thanks to everyone voted for me!

My PHP class Phonetic is nominated on phpclasses.org Innovation Award.

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The class generates words that phonetically are equal to the given one, but are written differently.

Do you want to get a Mozilla Add-ons Developer T-shirt?

Recently I have received an email from Mozilla:

If you are able to achieve Firefox 3 beta 3 compatibility by March 18th on addons.mozilla.org, you are eligible for a Mozilla Add-ons Developer T-shirt. If you have updated your add-on, and would like a shirt, please fill out the following form:

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/developers/tshirtrequest

Additionally, if your add-on is one of the top 50 most used add-ons by Firefox 3 users on the Firefox 3 release day, Mozilla will offer to sponsor (for an amount we will determine) a party for you and your friends. That is, Mozilla will chip in for you and your friends to celebrate your tools success! Mozilla will be in contact with the top add-ons shortly after the Firefox 3 release.

As for me, I have created a Get File Size plugin, and as soon as I did it, I have become eligible to fill a shipping form.

Here is a couple of links to help you on this way:

• http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/Firefox_3_for_developers
• https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/blog/4

It is a good chance to make your cool plugin idea come true.

“I have only made this letter longer
because I have not had the time to make it shorter”
Blaise Pascal, Lettres provinciales.

What do you think you are supposed to do as developer? To create code? Nope. To delete it!

Have you ever thought why it takes 5-15 minutes to get into the flow? From my point of view, that’s because you have to understand the root of a task, to load its code base into your operating memory - brain. So the less code you have to deal with, the more productive you are in juggling with it.

Alongside this fact consider these statements:

• Less software is easier to manage.
• Less software reduces your codebase and that means less maintenance busywork (and a happier staff).
• Less software lowers your cost of change so you can adapt quickly. You can change your mind without having to change boatloads of code.
• Less software results in fewer bugs.
• Less software means less support.

( Getting Real :: Less Software chapter )

At the same time it’s funny how often I got more robust code by moving from 100 lines to 10…

In the next post I will describe the ways I use to achieve that goal.