Sandro Zic PHP in the Enterprise talk which has spawned much blog discussion. John Lim triggered the discussion by pointing out a slide in sandro’s talk that suggested that PHP is not enterprise ready and rebutting some of the points on the slide. Marco Tabini augments the Pro PHP Enterprise position. I’d [...]
Enterprise PHP
October 12th, 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 [...]
goto in PHP
July 29th, 2004There is a discussion on the PHP Internals list about adding a GOTO statement to PHP (via NuCleuZ).
A little History … (lest we forget)
Gotos have had a long and sordid history in computer science. In the early days, before languages had a rich set of control structures, goto’s were it. It turned out [...]
Exceptional PHP
May 24th, 2004With PHP 5 adding exceptions, I imagine that the PHP community will have to undergo a bit of a paradigm change regarding PHP error handling. This transition probably won’t be without controversy and heartache, especially for those integrating third party libraries. I suspect that some of these issues won’t get worked out until [...]
Why is PHP Popular?
April 27th, 2004Harry writes about MySQL as a disruptive technology, suggesting that PHP is a disruptive technology. He dredges up an old Sitepoint post of mine on how PHP is good enough software.
The summary being that software that values simplicity over everything else propagates faster.
Mike Cogan doesn’t understand why LAMP and especially “uncomfortable” PHP should be [...]
Classpath Considered Harmful
April 26th, 2004I am glad to see I am not the only one who has problems with classpaths in java. Many of the advantages that python has over java, PHP has as well. Lack of classpath is certainly one of them, but dynamic typing is my favorite.
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