Opinion: Rise of PHP shows how msft dev tools have lost their way
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I love this: " More significantly, Microsoft is struggling to understand how MySQL, the relational database that's "good enough," is stealing an increasing amount of momentum from SQL Server." Yes, I'm sure they're struggling with this. It's free you idiot. And for many quick and dirty applications, that's all you need to know. How does this guy get paid to write this drivel? "There were good reasons for Microsoft to focus on the enterprise." Yep, there sure are: lots, and lots of money. Spent year after year, project after project regardless of success rates or suitability. No mom and pop shop is going to be able to throw money around like a corporation is perfectly happy to do.
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Just put this on the CP Twitter feed (@thecodeproject). RT @jeffreymcmanus: our pal @andrewbrust: rise of PHP reveals MSFT how dev tools have lost their way "Remembrance of Code Past"[^] My favorite paragraph: "PHP and MySQL have beaten Microsoft at the game it practically invented. Together, they offer a programming environment with a low barrier to entry, high productivity, more-than-sufficient functionality, low cost and a wildly enthusiastic ecosystem of developers. Dial back to the early 1990s, and that was Microsoft. In the latter part of this decade, it most certainly is not."
Jeff Hadfield wrote:
PHP and MySQL have beaten Microsoft
What MySQL? The one soon to be TheirSQL?
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I love this: " More significantly, Microsoft is struggling to understand how MySQL, the relational database that's "good enough," is stealing an increasing amount of momentum from SQL Server." Yes, I'm sure they're struggling with this. It's free you idiot. And for many quick and dirty applications, that's all you need to know. How does this guy get paid to write this drivel? "There were good reasons for Microsoft to focus on the enterprise." Yep, there sure are: lots, and lots of money. Spent year after year, project after project regardless of success rates or suitability. No mom and pop shop is going to be able to throw money around like a corporation is perfectly happy to do.
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Jim Crafton wrote:
How does this guy get paid to write this drivel?
Oracle money?
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Shog9 wrote:
Don't forget loose typing
you'd better not look at what's coming up for C# 4.0
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Jeff Hadfield wrote:
PHP and MySQL have beaten Microsoft
What MySQL? The one soon to be TheirSQL?
Mladen Jankovic wrote:
The one soon to be TheirSQL?
MySQL is GPL'd, it's not going anywhere.
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Shog9 wrote:
Don't forget loose typing
you'd better not look at what's coming up for C# 4.0
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Shog9 wrote:
Don't forget loose typing
you'd better not look at what's coming up for C# 4.0
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I suppose Visual Web Developer Express (or whatever it's called) is Microsoft's response. Trouble is, while the price is right for the hobbyist developer, the learning curve is just the same as Visual Studio Standard, so it takes a significant time investment to learn how to use it. And I would have to say that even as a professional developer (I do get paid for my development skills :-)) I'd be as happy or happier using Apache+Python+SQLite for a little (or not so little) web-site - there's less getting in the way than with ASP.NET - although that's just an uninformed opinion, as I've never used ASP.NET. I have used Python and stuff for web development though :)
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Stuart Dootson wrote:
I'd be as happy or happier using Apache+Python
Like these guys?[^] They actually began their site using lisp...eww.
Stuart Dootson wrote:
there's less getting in the way than with ASP.NET
Even with django and turbogears which are "heavy" frameworks it is still much simpler imo than the asp.net page model and debugging is soooooooooo much easier.
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Stuart Dootson wrote:
I'd be as happy or happier using Apache+Python
Like these guys?[^] They actually began their site using lisp...eww.
Stuart Dootson wrote:
there's less getting in the way than with ASP.NET
Even with django and turbogears which are "heavy" frameworks it is still much simpler imo than the asp.net page model and debugging is soooooooooo much easier.
Sovereign ingredient for a happy marriage: Pay cash or do without. Interest charges not only eat up a household budget; awareness of debt eats up domestic felicity. --Lazarus Long Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece. --Ralph Charell
Chris Austin wrote:
They actually began their site using lisp...eww
That's always been my reaction to Lisp - the brackets, the brackets!!!
Chris Austin wrote:
django and turbogears which are "heavy" frameworks
I've never used any more than CherryPy + Genshi...but as they make up roughly 50% of Turbogears, maybe that's where I should be looking :-)
Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p
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Stuart Dootson wrote:
I'd be as happy or happier using Apache+Python
Like these guys?[^] They actually began their site using lisp...eww.
Stuart Dootson wrote:
there's less getting in the way than with ASP.NET
Even with django and turbogears which are "heavy" frameworks it is still much simpler imo than the asp.net page model and debugging is soooooooooo much easier.
Sovereign ingredient for a happy marriage: Pay cash or do without. Interest charges not only eat up a household budget; awareness of debt eats up domestic felicity. --Lazarus Long Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece. --Ralph Charell
Chris Austin wrote: Even with django and turbogears which are "heavy" frameworks it is still much simpler imo than the asp.net page model and debugging is soooooooooo much easier. Really...? There is a programming language / tool that is easier than C# / ASP.Net / SQL Server. I haven't really played with any non MS tools because I found .net to be very easy. (Especially debugging). Perhaps I need to open my eyes to what else is available.
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Nishant Sivakumar wrote:
Maybe they set it all up while he was away on one of his biking trips Big Grin
At first glance I read that as '...one of his bikini trips' :suss:
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I saw "binging trips".
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Chris Austin wrote: Even with django and turbogears which are "heavy" frameworks it is still much simpler imo than the asp.net page model and debugging is soooooooooo much easier. Really...? There is a programming language / tool that is easier than C# / ASP.Net / SQL Server. I haven't really played with any non MS tools because I found .net to be very easy. (Especially debugging). Perhaps I need to open my eyes to what else is available.
I didn't get any requirements for the signature
ToddHileHoffer wrote:
There is a programming language / tool that is easier than C# / ASP.Net / SQL Server.
It's really my opinion rather than fact :) But, I just enjoy coding and playing with technology in general and given a choice I try to go with a simple solution. The two frameworks that I mentioned both have some learning curve associated with them and coming from an asp.net point of view it may well seem obtuse when you begin playing around. The strict mvc approach seems to be a sticking point for people new to them as well. Not to mention, you would have to pick up the language as you go.
ToddHileHoffer wrote:
Perhaps I need to open my eyes to what else is available.
Why not? The worst thing that could happen is that you reaffirm the things you love about your current tools.
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That's what I thought as well. However I will admit that we use PHP at work because it's less hassle to setup and program in. However it should be noted that most of our solutions are internal, and tend to be pretty basic.
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Jim Crafton wrote:
because it's less hassle to setup and program in
ASP.NET and VS Studio makes it a no brainer to build ASP.NET sites with the click of a button, but to each there own I guess. The way I see it, if ASP.NET would have been put out by anyone other than Microosft, PHP would not exist any longer.
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Jeff Hadfield wrote:
PHP and MySQL have beaten Microsoft
What MySQL? The one soon to be TheirSQL?
High five! :laugh:
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Mladen Jankovic wrote:
The one soon to be TheirSQL?
MySQL is GPL'd, it's not going anywhere.
Yeah, it probably isn't going to go anywhere.. And probably have little work done to it for the next ten years. I cannot see them throwing in resources to maintain and enhance a tool to compete with their own business. It is just getting stuck into a virtual vault forever.
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Yeah, it probably isn't going to go anywhere.. And probably have little work done to it for the next ten years. I cannot see them throwing in resources to maintain and enhance a tool to compete with their own business. It is just getting stuck into a virtual vault forever.
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Rocky Moore wrote:
It is just getting stuck into a virtual vault forever.
it can't be stuck in a vault, the GPL doesn't allow it. the source is available for anybody to download and modify.
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IIS on XP is somewhat gimp. XP server might work though.
Todd Smith
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Just put this on the CP Twitter feed (@thecodeproject). RT @jeffreymcmanus: our pal @andrewbrust: rise of PHP reveals MSFT how dev tools have lost their way "Remembrance of Code Past"[^] My favorite paragraph: "PHP and MySQL have beaten Microsoft at the game it practically invented. Together, they offer a programming environment with a low barrier to entry, high productivity, more-than-sufficient functionality, low cost and a wildly enthusiastic ecosystem of developers. Dial back to the early 1990s, and that was Microsoft. In the latter part of this decade, it most certainly is not."
And back in the real world, a manager at my company insisted on using PHP to build a server service. Never did get it to fully work and now that he's gone, we have nobody who knows PHP and no money or desire to hire someone just for that. The real irony; we could have done the whole thing in .NET in a fraction of the time and a fraction of the cost. A few weeks ago, our IT department added a Sharepoint server and almost instantly eliminated a chunk of the functionality of that server.
Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine. - P.J. O'Rourke
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Rocky Moore wrote:
It is just getting stuck into a virtual vault forever.
it can't be stuck in a vault, the GPL doesn't allow it. the source is available for anybody to download and modify.
The vault I was mentioning is that there will be little or no improvement. The code is there, but it takes developers to build it and I do not see Oracle spending resources on development to compete against themselves.
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I saw "binging trips".
That sure would have made it easier to get him to say it was ok. Add a tape (or digital) recorder for proof and he wouldn't have any way to back out. :-)