Wow… via Patrick Mueller @ IBM I found a post on techrepublic stating that ‘PHP is doomed’. Patricks’ response is done pretty well, but I thought I’d add a few observations as well.
The original poster’s point that PHP is doomed stems from a lack of threading model in PHP. While I’d say [...]

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Wow… via Patrick Mueller @ IBM I found a post on techrepublic stating that ‘PHP is doomed’. Patricks’ response is done pretty well, but I thought I’d add a few observations as well.
The original poster’s point that PHP is doomed stems from a lack of threading model in PHP. While I’d say [...]

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An acquaintance from the local meetup.com scene, Nathaniel Talbott, made a very interesting analogy between ‘Rails’ (the Ruby platform) and ‘rails’ as in the railroad industry of the 1800s.  His article is here, although I can’t find a specific date on it.  Regardless of date, it’s certainly got some good insight into not just Ruby, [...]

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Adam Williams, creator of the sails framework, posted an interesting piece on choice of language.  The basic premise is something I think most developers probably already know - choice of language isn’t really that important - but it was good to see it being said yet again.  That it was taken from a Ruby proponent, [...]

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Couldn’t think of a better title for this, but it’s not that newsworthy or anything - I’m just putting this here because it’s one of the better explanations of why some advocacy works and some doesn’t, yet still succint…
http://www.gadgetopia.com/post/4104
The part that caught my eye was some of a response, which I’ll quote here…
This is the [...]

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