Professional PHP

Here is a wrap up of some links and information from the friendster PHP conversion of a couple weeks ago.
First, it appears performance really was a major problem for friendster. Friendster Quickly Gathering Foes:
The key issues behind the Friendster abandonment trend, according to users, are the service’s inability to do anything about its habitual [...]

Troutgirl wieghs in with some more information on the Friendster PHP conversion:
1) We had not one but TWO guys here who had written bestselling JSP books. Not that this necessarily means they’re great Java devs, but I actually think our guys were as good as any team.
2) We tried rewriting the site in Java twice, [...]

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 [...]