"PHP won the war, but what did it cost?"

These are slides from the talk I gave at the Guelph PHP user's group on January 18, 2012 where I talked about my thoughts on the state of PHP and it's future

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1. WON THE WAR But what did it cost?
2. $progStartYear = 1982; $firstComputer = ‘VIC-20’; $phpStartYear = 1998;
3. PHP solved the “web problem”
4. PHP won by being flexible
6. + +
7. Convention over Configuration
10. “Opinions are like assholes. Everyone has one”
11. programming “culture” drives programming “community”
13. PHP 5.4 is almost here Namespaces, closures, and traits OH MY
19. Testing? GOOD Testable Applications? BETTER
20. “Um, did you say ‘do you guys have tests’?”
21. TOO BUSY GETTING SHIT DONE
23. “I am a developer!”
26. “I am a developer!”
33. RESTful PHP Framework
34. RESTful PHP Framework
37. http://grumpy-testing.com
38. Stay Grumpy! • http://www.littlehart.net/atthekeyboard • @chartjes