When I got Linux Pro Magazine, issue March 2008, there was a DVD included "Mandriva 2008 Power Pack". I have an old machine and I decided to give it a shut and try this Linux distribution.

Since couple of months ago I switched to Eclipse. Especially for PHP. Before that, I worked a little with Delphi for PHP. Although I'm a Delphi fan and I have been using Delphi IDE for more than 10 years, but I found Delphi for PHP lacks many good features of Classic Delphi. The components (VCL for PHP) is a great start, but again it is still on its first stage and honestly, I think Code Gear rushed into bringing it to the market. There are many bugs and we should yet wait for a stable version. After Delphi for PHP, I found Eclipse with PDT plugin which is a plugin for PHP development.

Last week me and my co-worker came upon a task that needed a very fast web server to process huge amount of requests. The process was not complicated and the database backend was very simple. The first thing came to our mind was that apache is too big for this purpose. So we looked for a faster and smaller web server. Spending some time on google got us to a Russian web server called "nginx".