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Lessons Learned: Why PHP won

Startup Lessons Learned

Lessons Learned by Eric Ries Monday, January 12, 2009 Why PHP won When I first learned to program on the web, Perl + CGI was the dominant platform. But by the time I was building my first websites for commercial use , PHP had taken over. Writing unit tests or mock objects in PHP is an exercise in constant frustration.

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Build Transformify - ?#?Creative? ?#?Web? ?#?Developer? TRJOB-8

Transformify

Superior knowledge of current web development trends, techniques and best practices. An excellent understanding of front and back-end web development skills including, HTML/5, CSS, JavaScript, Responsive Web Design, PHP, MySQL, HTML email, Bootstrap, Flat UI, Symfony. Required technical experience.

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Framework Benchmarks

TechEmpower

And let us simply draw the curtain of charity over the Cake PHP results. Among the many factors to consider when choosing a web development framework, raw performance is easy to objectively measure. We were surprised by the performance of Raw PHP in this test. However, the penalty for using an ORM on PHP is severe.

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Frameworks Round 1

TechEmpower

And let us simply draw the curtain of charity over the Cake PHP results. Among the many factors to consider when choosing a web development framework, raw performance is easy to objectively measure. We were surprised by the performance of Raw PHP in this test. However, the penalty for using an ORM on PHP is severe.

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How to Effectively Use WordPress as Your CMS

Brandanew

WordPress has useful default features, but it is highly recommended to use customized plug-ins and features to organize and professionalize your website according to your specific requirements. The most amazing part is that you do not have to know HTML in order to edit website content. Initial settings after having installed WordPress.

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What we can learn from the evolution of Content Management Systems

The Next Web

As more websites began to have dynamic content, it became necessary to develop software that could generate HTML pages on the fly and modify the static files based on content that someone (typically a journalist) had input in a backend or that had been added by a user (on a discussion board).

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5 reasons VCs should favor code-savvy founders

The Next Web

Aaron Skonnard is the CEO and co-founder of Pluralsight , an online training resource for Web developers and IT professionals. Building a developer-friendly culture. Despite good intentions , CEOs who wouldn’t know PHP from a hole in the ground tend to experience a big disconnect on the front lines.

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