Well I had hoped that more information would come out about Friendsters Java to PHP conversion (1 2 3). Sadly, I don’t think thats going to happen. It seems that Troutgirl has been fired for talking about the conversion in her blog.
This is a lesson in how not to handle public relations. [...]
un-Friendster: fired for blogging
August 31st, 2004Why PHP is easier to learn than Java
August 4th, 2004I ran across a Novice java programmer’s mistakes and Common java programming errors page. This is a dubious exercise, but I am going to try and use these pages to compare the learning curve of Java and PHP.
This is inherently unfair, as these are lists of known learning problems in Java that might not [...]