I really like when I stumble upon a creative and useful piece of software that could improve my everyday development process. I remember when I started using FireBug it was great help in the HTML/CSS/JavaScript development and debugging.

Last couple of months I was involved in evaluation and implementation of ActiveMQ as message queue solution for the project I currently work on. While it is more or less mainstream open-source solution today I couldn't tell I don't miss a native PHP messaging solution. Recently I've found a sign of something similar that could potentially evolve to serious PHP messaging solution. Dropr is a distributed message queue framework written in PHP. The main goals are:

• reliable and durable (failsafe)-messaging over networks
• decentralized architecture without a single (point of failure) server instance
• easy to setup and use
• modularity for queue storage and message transports (currently filesystem storage and curl-upload are implemented)

It was years ago when I started coding first PHP pages. What a mess was that :) I was beginner, web development was not at the level it is today. The web development tools offer was scarce, AJAX was not so far future but again it was the future :) And beside all of that we were still coding, rushing towards new technologies and development methodologies.