4 minute readLike Filing CRA 🇨🇦 T2202 XML Information Returns Electronically from a few years ago, I’m again filing our T2202s to the CRA and there’s some changes that threw me for a bit of a loop, that I thought were worth sharing. Where to Upload the Xml Files Has Changed First off, the URL to log […]
Read More Updates on Filing T2202s to the CRA in 2025< 1 minute readI’ve worked for almost 10 years as a contractor for US companies and never paid tax to the American IRS, instead always to the Canadian CRA. For the first time, a US-based company I’ve done contracting work for asked me to fill out a W-8BEN IRS tax form, so I did a bit of research. […]
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Read More All Done My Event Espresso7 minute readWhen trying to speed up your PHP web applications, it sure helps to know where the bottle necks are. That’s where Xdebug and Q Cache Grind can help: they can tell you which functions and class methods are taking up the most time and memory, how many times they’re called, and who called them. With this information, it’s far easier to speed up your code than “shooting in the dark” by just trying to optimize everything.
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