Archive for October 29th, 2002

PHP is Good

Some excellent reviews of PHPCon from Jeremy Zawodny. I have posted a few favorites in my Technology category. – andy

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882) [dws.]

Making the case for PHP at Yahoo. Running a high-performance dynamic website is a daunting task. The
short development cycles needed to stay ahead of the competition
demand a web-centric scripting language that is easy to maintain and
update.
We'll explore a case study of one company (Yahoo!) that is making the
transition to PHP from a proprietary server-side page language written
in C/C++. — Michael J. Radwin

“tri” Jeremy Zawodny, MySQL guru at Yahoo is blogging PHPCon 2002.

“zeldman.ogel” [PHP Everywhere]

PHPCon 2002: Closing Keynote — Dirk Elemendorf on Rackspace and PHP. The conference was closed by Dirk, one of the founders of Rackspace discussing the critical role that PHP played in getting Rackspace off the ground. He focused on PHP's integration, quick development times, and flexibility. He then threw us a… [Jeremy Zawodny's blog]

PHPCon 2002: Introduction to XSLT with PHP. On Friday morning, I sat in on Stephan Schmidt's “Introduction to XSLT with PHP” presentation. What I found interesting here was not how XSLT works (I already knew that) but the two things I learned. First, I finally got a… [Jeremy Zawodny's blog]