7 reasons I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails - O'Reilly RubySUMMARY: I spent two years trying to make Rails do something it wasn't meant to do, then realized my old abandoned language (PHP, in my case) would do just fine if approached with my new Rails-gained wisdom. INTRO / BACKGROUND:... 7 reasons I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails - O'Reilly RubyI announced on the O’Reilly blog that I was going to completely scrap over 100,000 lines of messy PHP code in my existing CD Baby (cdbaby.com) website, and rewrite the entire thing in Rails, from scratch. ( 18 , 75 ) 7 Reasons I Switched Back to PHP After 2 Years on Rails"Back in January 2005, I announced on the O’Reilly blog that I was going to completely scrap over 100,000 lines of messy PHP code in my existing CD Baby (cdbaby.com) website, and rewrite the entire thing in Rails, from scratch."Great article. ( 11 ) 7 reasons I switched back to PHP after 2 years on RailsIs there anything Rails can do, that PHP CANT do?The answer is no.I threw away 2 years of Rails code, and opened a new empty Subversion respository.Then in a mere TWO MONTHS, by myself, not even telling anyone I was doing this, using nothing but vi, and no frameworks, I rewrote CD Baby from scratch in PHP. Done!... ( 21 ) Interesting take: your new code is better because your a bet...Interesting take: your new code is better because your a better programmer, not because it's a better language. ( 1 ) 7 reasons I switched back to PHP after 2 years on RailsWhy I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails INTRO / BACKGROUND: Back in January 2005, I announced on the O'Reilly blog that I was going to completely scrap over 100,000 lines of messy PHP code in my existing CD Baby (cdbaby. ... ) 7 reasons I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails (Derek Sivers/O'Reilly Ruby)Why I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails — INTRO / BACKGROUND: — Back in January 2005, I announced on the O'Reilly blog that I was going to completely scrap over 100,000 lines of messy PHP code in my existing CD Baby ) - 23 Sep 2007, 9:43am in business, advice, web2.0, technology, internet, blog, toread, discussion, website, work, web, tips, webdesign, read, design, webdev, essay, article, articles, opinion, interesting, humor, funny, programming, geek, developer, php, dev, development, rubyonrails, webdevelopment, coding, web-development, webapp, on, news, software, tech, code, opensource, oreilly, performance, *****, language, comparison, o'reilly, sql, mysql, frameworks, strategy, ruby, patterns, quotes, critique, optimization, rest, rails, ror, ruby-on-rails, pragmatism, framework, migration, advocacy, linkblog, no_tag, switch, compare, insight, 37signals, switching, experience, rewrite, vs, oo, programming-languages, mvc, reasons, softwaredesign, activerecord, cakephp, dry, articulos, 2007-04-11, versus, jhu-rails, and cdbaby |
