With the help of Sean and twenty-four fantastic authors from the PHP community, PHP Advent is back for a third year.

Paul gets things started with an article on comprehensible code:

Reading code is hard work. Here are some reasons why, along with some tips on how to make it easier for other developers to understand your code.

Thanks to everyone who has helped spread the love on Twitter and elsewhere, and thanks especially to our authors.

We've got a few surprises this year, so I hope you'll follow along. You can follow @phpadvent on Twitter, subscribe to our feed, or just visit phpadvent.org for a daily dose of tips, tricks, and tidbits.

You can also read previous PHP Advent articles if you haven't already:

• PHP Advent 2007
• PHP Advent 2008

In addition to PHP Advent, you might also be interested in 24 Ways, an advent calendar for web geeks.

Mele Kalikimaka!