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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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Framework Benchmarks

TechEmpower

About What we do Portfolio People Blog Contact. And let us simply draw the curtain of charity over the Cake PHP results. We were surprised by the performance of Raw PHP in this test. We suspect the PHP MySQL driver and connection pool are particularly well tuned. However, the penalty for using an ORM on PHP is severe.

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Framework Benchmarks Round 11

TechEmpower

We'll keep this blog entry short and sweet. clancats (php). limonade (php). clancats (php). limonade (php). Round 11 of the ongoing Web Framework Benchmarks project is now available! The highlights for Round 11. Three new languages are represented in Round 11: Crystal , D , and Rust. aleph (clojure). jawn (java).

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How to Effectively Use WordPress as Your CMS

Brandanew

In our last post , we talked about what tools and infrastructure you need to develop a remarkable blog. Shahid has some really mean tips for taking your blogging game up several notches. You may choose to turn off the comments on each page and keep them on only on blog posts. Take notes, this is real good stuff.

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What we can learn from the evolution of Content Management Systems

The Next Web

Developers used PHP, Perl and similar programming languages to build websites. One of the most popular frameworks in those days were PHP-Nuke and Zend, that was tightly coupled with PHP programming language. Then, the first languages designed for Web development began to show up.

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Hiring Freelancers: How to Master Technology in the Digital Age with These Simple Tricks

Transformify

Some of the most in-demand freelance skills for 2023 are : Web design and development: This skill involves creating attractive and functional websites using various tools and languages, such as WordPress, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Shopify, etc. or follow tutorials and blogs from experts in the field.

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Networking Events in Los Angeles and Southern California

SoCal CTO

Southern California Tech Central – Brings together posts from top bloggers around Southern California including John's blog and this blog. They put on great events. VentureNet – Great annual event by the Technology Council. Meetup – My personal experience has been mixed with these.