Re: OT: Future of PHP - LAMP Based Web Site Technology

2007-08-25 Thread Josh Mellicker
Here's part of Apple.com written in php: http://www.apple.com/software/pro/training/centers.php Hehe, they have the old header from months ago... someone needs to wake up in that department. On Aug 24, 2007, at 6:06 PM, Brian Yennie wrote: Sivakatirswami, FWIW, Flickr actually *is*

OT: Future of PHP - LAMP Based Web Site Technology

2007-08-24 Thread Sivakatirswami
This is a super blue sky query for comment: We're interested in possibly outsourcing some web dev. In response to any RFP we might issue we will no doubt get a number of developers using LAMP. I already have one handy. All his web sites are *.php based (and table based) zero javascript or

Re: OT: Future of PHP - LAMP Based Web Site Technology

2007-08-24 Thread Josh Mellicker
PHP is so entrenched it's not going away anytime in the next decade. There are many PHP AJAX frameworks: http://ajaxpatterns.org/ PHP_Ajax_Frameworks PHP is not as elegant as Ruby but a lot easier to learn and tweak. LAMP is alive and well. (Apple has a few pages using PHP but prefers their

Re: OT: Future of PHP - LAMP Based Web Site Technology

2007-08-24 Thread Brian Yennie
Sivakatirswami, FWIW, Flickr actually *is* written in PHP. They just use browser friendly URLs (which are easily configured with Apache to hide things like .php extensions). Cal Henderson, the original lead developer, actually wrote a great book: Building Scalable Web Sites (The Flickr