IBM Poopheads: "LAMP Users Need to Grow Up"

Saturday, May 28, 2005 at 01:29 AM

That is to say, they don't get it. This started out as a simple rant and turned into a decent sized essay on basic shared-nothing architecture and scaling down.

IBM redemption

Saturday, February 26, 2005 at 05:15 AM

I humbly retract my previous negative statements about IBM.

refactormycode.com

Saturday, June 28, 2008 at 08:46 PM / refactormycode.com

Awesome idea. Nice syntax highlighting. (Via Simon Willison)

Maintainable Programmers

Friday, April 04, 2008 at 01:00 AM / lesscode.org

This was a really great lesscode.org piece by Aristotle. The follow-up discussion in the comments was superb as well. Being in the middle of everything really warped my view of what was going on back then, I think.

Why PHP is good but bad

Friday, April 04, 2008 at 12:37 AM / plasmasturm.org

Not sure how I missed linking to this. Pretty much mirrors my feelings on PHP to a T, except more thought out.

The immediacy of PHP

Thursday, April 03, 2008 at 02:57 PM / loudthinking.com

David Heinemeier Hansson: "PHP scales down like no other package for the web and it deserves more credit for tackling that scope."

Agreed!

Websphere CTO Jerry Cuomo on REST & Project Zero

Monday, January 21, 2008 at 01:42 PM / infoq.com

Whoa. I apparently haven't spent nearly enough time looking into IBM's Project Zero. It seems to come down to REST + (Groovy|PHP) and sneaking practical technologies in the front door with a "SOA" label on it. Interesting strategy.

What PHP Deployment Gets Right

Saturday, January 12, 2008 at 03:17 PM / blog.ianbicking.org

Ian takes a look at some of the attributes of PHP's deployment model, why they work so well (for PHP), and why other environments have such a hard time duplicating them.

What nine of the world’s largest websites are running on

Saturday, September 29, 2007 at 09:29 AM / royal.pingdom.com

Linux, Apache, PHP, and memcached are the big winners. Nice to lighttpd represent.

Immature developer attitudes revealed in flames regarding CDBaby at Pervasive Code

Monday, September 24, 2007 at 10:21 AM / pervasivecode.com

"What matters a lot more than choice of programming language is the ability to get the project done, meaning tested and correct and launched. Apparently for Derek, PHP is the way to get that done, and Rails ain’t." -- it really is that simple. Period.

7 reasons I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails

Sunday, September 23, 2007 at 09:32 AM / oreillynet.com

"But at every step, it seemed our needs clashed with Rails’ preferences. (Like trying to turn a train into a boat. It’s do-able with a lot of glue. But it’s damn hard. And certainly makes you ask why you’re really doing this.)"

J2EE SUCKS HUGE DONKEY BALLS.

Tuesday, November 07, 2006 at 09:50 AM / developers.slashdot.org

"Then they spend one day debugging shit that's gone wrong with Eclipse (or its mangling of the CVS repository, or some ant dependency problem, or)... And meanwhile they whine that 256 megs of RAM isn't enough to edit a fucking text file (and do NOTHING el