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

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January 19, 2012
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"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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Transcript

  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

  5. None

  6. + +

  7. Convention over Configuration

  8. None
  9. None

  10. “Opinions are like assholes. Everyone has one”

  11. programming “culture” drives programming “community”

  12. None

  13. PHP 5.4 is almost here Namespaces, closures, and traits OH

    MY
  14. None
  15. None
  16. None
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  18. None

  19. Testing? GOOD Testable Applications? BETTER

  20. “Um, did you say ‘do you guys have tests’?”

  21. TOO BUSY GETTING SHIT DONE

  22. None

  23. “I am a developer!”

  24. None
  25. None

  26. “I am a developer!”

  27. None
  28. None
  29. None
  30. None
  31. None
  32. None

  33. RESTful PHP Framework

  34. RESTful PHP Framework

  35. None
  36. None

  37. http://grumpy-testing.com

  38. Stay Grumpy! • http://www.littlehart.net/atthekeyboard • @chartjes