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Bobby asks: What is the best web language today? What is the worst web language? Does the practice of one vs another show the capabilities of the developer, or the limitations of the task? Those are some tough questions to answer. I’ve somewhat talked about this before. I would probably say that the problem is [...]
PHP Simple Cache is pretty self decribing. It is a simple cache built for PHP powered websites that I have decided to release as open source. It has a fairly narrow audience. The most applicable website I can imagine for its usage would be: Powered by PHP Relatively static content, but still driven by a [...]
Jim decided to respond to my post regarding language vs. language debates, specifically looking at PHP and Ruby / Ruby on Rails. He makes some good points, but there is some stuff that I’d like to respond to and clarify… To say that one language is better than the other is meaningless. Better in what [...]
(Fair warning, if you aren’t a nerd, you might want to skip this post) Are we (programmers, developers, engineers) still really having these debates? Give me a break. Java vs. .NET, Java vs. PHP, .NET vs. PHP, now Ruby on Rails vs. PHP. The other day, Jeremy, sent me these. They’re a series of videos [...]