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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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Frameworks Round 2

TechEmpower

Only Cake PHP requires more than 100 milliseconds. As before, Raw PHP is also very strong in this test. Again, Raw PHP makes an extremely strong showing. PHP with an ORM and Cake improved dramatically from last week''s test thanks to configuration changes recommended by the community. with APC, PHP-FPM, nginx.

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Framework Benchmarks

TechEmpower

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. PHP 5.3.10. Operating system.

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Frameworks Round 1

TechEmpower

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. PHP 5.3.10. Operating system.

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Guide to Create an Uber for Courier App

ReadWriteStart

The entrepreneurs can reduce their operational costs significantly – by utilizing advanced technologies like autonomous vehicles, drones, and robots for courier delivery. Recognizing the business goals and operational scope of the client firm. Efficient management of the back-end with technologies such as PHP and Python.

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Culture Isn’t Everything: 3 (Other) Traits Vital To Your Business’s Success

YoungUpstarts

It’s how your company operates internally, but it has no allegiance to the core of your business: making money and growing at a steady pace. Zvi frequently participates in thought leadership panels at Tech Cocktail, WordPress DC, DC PHP, and DCRUG events. Culture, after all, is inward.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

Full discloure, I am a former PHP, Perl, ColdFusion, ActionScript, VB.NET, ASP.NET and C# developer. You can develop web.apps in assembly language if you insist, but it’ll take 10 times more time and money than doing it with.net, php, ror or other modern languages and you’ll have 10 times more bugs to deal with.

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