In any programming language, if you find yourself frequently repeating a chunk of code or evaluating an expression, that means it's time to put it in to a function or variable, respectively.
Symphony 1.7 has an area known as Utilities. Each utility contains a set of related code to be applied at runtime. For code that should be applied to every page request, we then turn to Masters. Most of my projects have a few common variables that I use throughout the website so I place those variable definitions in the Master.
This is a comic I stole from xkcd: Steal This Comic. Here are some places to get DRM-free music:
With all the data that I maintain on my personal machine, it's ironic that I don't have a good method of backing up that data. The problem is, I have so much data that I have no where that I can make a copy as a backup.
This is the home of my new blog, Symphony-powered. I'm still learning the ropes of the system and haven't quite finished the design yet, but I think I've made enough progress to at least start putting my thoughts online.