I see the lack of unit tests constantly. I did a small stint with PHP and one of the first things I did was learn PHPUnit. Having invested heavily in the TDD Ko

I see the lack of unit tests constantly. I did a small stint with PHP and one of the first things I did was learn PHPUnit. Having invested heavily in the TDD Koolaid with Rails/Python, I made sure I learned how to apply the same ideas in PHP. And yes, I've seen quite a bit of the "1999 was just fine" culture among PHP developers too. If you can't deploy your code at the touch of a button, you should be working your way to that goal.