NYCPHP Meetup

[Leila Lappin]

One word of caution,  
Warning the following is a rant, read with caution or
don’t read if you don’t want to be bothered,


With success comes migration of jobs elsewhere and
more than 100million hungry programmers poised and
ready to take the jobs away.  Sorry for the trumpet of
doom and despair but it’s happened before.  

Since I already spilled the beans, let me elaborate a
little more.  The only reason PHP remains a good
source of employment in New York is because the big
boys (mid to large size corporations) don’t take it
seriously.  Once they start doing so, next thing you
know they’re importing cheap programmers to do the
work and whatnot. Let the Java people remain in their
Java houses and think their big giant cow of a
language is the best thing that ever happened to the
IT community.  

With PHP5 becoming the standard installation in all
shops, we all know that Java loses its lead as a
better object oriented language and the only thing it
has to boast.  But let’s keep this a sweet secret.  

Sorry for the rant, I hope I haven’t ruined your
morning.  

--- Steve Manes <smanes at magpie.com> wrote:

> Mark Armendariz wrote:
> > A good friend mentioned that he usually argues
> that the development time 
> > is preferable with PHP. Anyone here have resources
> to share or a good 
> > general direction to walk in with this argument?
> 
> A company for whom I consult was considering porting
> their existing ASP 
> software from PHP/Perl to Java.  Their reason had
> mostly to do with 
> their new tech director and the fact that he only
> knew Java.
> 
> Most of my arguments fell on deaf ears.  The one
> that finally caused the 
> bosses to put the kibosh on the Java porting project
> was my reminder of 
> how the software is hacked almost daily to add new
> chrome and doodads 
> for specific ASP clients without affecting the
> others.  PHP (and Perl) 
> are simply better suited to this sort of ad hoc
> surgery than Java.
> 
> It also helped when I told them that their
> PHP/PostgreSQL production 
> servers had been up for 480 days without a reboot
> (they were also 
> considering porting to an MS architecture).
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