PHP Zend Certification - or ZCE is something that I wanted to achieve at various points in my career, for various reasons. And yesterday I finally did it, even though it’s probably just a small achievement now, rather than a major career turning point.

Why did I go for it? How did I prepare for it? Was it hard? Am I a PHP Guru now?

One of many easy ways to speed up your website which, surprisingly, not a lot of people are using is serving a gzipped version of your css/js assets. In fact, you can usually decrease their size by about 80%!

One problem though is that it’s tedious to run a gzipper each time you deploy. But fourtunately for us, it’s easily automatable with our friendly deployment tool - Capifony.

This is a really nifty and simple script I’ve written for myself, figured I’d share it.

Let’s break it down: