Troutgirl seems to have hit a hot button in her blog about Friendstar switching from JSP to PHP. This story has been picked up by a variety of bloggers. I originally saw it from Dynamically typed. Russell Beattie Notebook has some good discussion on the topic. Joe Grossberg talks about a redirection problems [...]
PHP Scalability and Performance
June 30th, 2004Evolution not Revolution
June 18th, 2004I ran across an Interview with Scott Collins about Mozilla at ArsTechnica. In light of Joel Spolsky’s How Microsoft Lost the API War article, I found one comment particularly interesting:
And we didn’t get out a 5.0, and that cost of us everything, it was the biggest mistake ever
This was obviously an emotional issue for Scott, [...]
Manual Memory Management is Dead
June 17th, 2004Joel Spolsky’s How Microsoft Lost the API War is a good read. I think he is spot on about managed-memory languages. Thats a job that computers are better at than people and our computers are fast enough to handle it.
GUI development in the early 90s/late 80s was a nightmare. [...]
PEAR: Its a Vision Thing
June 9th, 2004Alan Knowles has an update on the status of the template debate in PEAR. Alan chose to highlight a post by Hans Lellelid. I also had this message flagged for comment.
Hans makes the argument for a tighter vision for PEAR, as well as for an overflow method for packages that don’t [...]
PEAR Templates
June 4th, 2004Aaron Wormus blogs on PEAR Template trouble. The PEAR community seems to be having a significant debate over the proposal to include the template engine Savant into PEAR.
This proposal represents an identity crisis for PEAR. Joshua Eichorn recognizes the issue:
Either we have 1 engine and multiple api’s and fix mistakes of the [...]
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