Archive for July, 2009

Server Migration is Easy with PHP

Monday, July 13th, 2009

Recently we had to make an emergency move from our old servers (where we had been for 5-6 years) to our own dedicated server because of technical difficulties in the heads of the nerd’s who managed the servers killersites.com had been sitting on.

I will spare you the details of my server migration ordeal for now. What I want to point out, is that PHP (once again) has proven to be a great choice as the server side programming language.

PHP is consistent …

During this move, I had to deal with a bunch of web apps and scripts that included a nice buffet of technologies like:

- Perl
- PHP
- Java

.. Yes, the dreaded evil configuration hell that is J2EE!!

To make a long story short, migrating the PHP apps was a snap – copy over the files, set up the database and were off! On the other hand, I still have to get around to figuring out why the Perl and Java applications don’t want to run on the new server.

:(

PHP continues to rock, saving me time, money and headaches.

Stefan Mischook
www.killerphp.com

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Programmers should learn to be language agnostic.

Monday, July 13th, 2009

In my last post I wrote about how Ruby’s early problems around 2006-2007:

- incomplete libraries
- difficult web server integration

.. had played a role slowing its adoption. The main thrust of the piece was to point out that despite the explosion of interest, Ruby and Rails had failed to make much of a dent relative to PHP in terms of usage. In fact, PHP is still far and away a much more popular language.

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What happened to Ruby? And why PHP is KING of the Web.

Saturday, July 11th, 2009

In 2006 I created killerphp.com because I wanted to make it easy for web designers to learn PHP. I thought PHP was THE predominate web programming language and I felt every web designer should include PHP as one of their core coding skills:

- html
- css
- php
- javascript.

Then Ruby came along … for a short while.

What happened to Ruby and Ruby on Rails?

Once upon a time Ruby was the best thing since sliced bread … it was the language to replace all languages and everything else just sucked! Funny, that seems like ages ago.

Today though, the picture is different; Ruby’s shine has since lost its’ luster and the Rails train has practically fallen off the tracks – now there are other web frameworks in the Ruby world that have replaced Rails.

Addendum: Merb and Rails are merging … Rails hasn’t ‘gone off the tracks’. My bad.

So what the heck happened … what stopped the Ruby train ride?

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