Frameworks provide a tool for rapid application development, but often accrue technical debt as rapidly as they allow you to create functionality.

Does your business scale? Does your platform scale? Do you scale? What is scale?

Using Tasksel and installing the lamp-server package still gives you php 5.3. Here's how to install a LAMP server with php 5.5.

If you need or want a great full-text search engine, and you decide on Sphinx Search, here's how to install it on Ubuntu. I'm using 12.04 LTS Ubuntu Server.

http://webuild.envato.com/blog/moving-the-marketplaces-to-elasticsearch/

http://git-scm.com/docs/git-credential-cache

Very useful for removing unwanted files from your git repository. Cloning a 1.5gb repository because someone accidentally committed in a video or cache is annoying, to say the least.

Many frameworks we use are front-loaded. This means that we have a web-root with an index file that handles all application requests.