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kieran graham @kierangraham github.com/kierangraham Tuesday, 31 January 12

I work at airpos we

WHY HAS IT WORKED? Why has it worked FOr us? http://www.flickr.com/photos/squirr3l/6049132262/sizes/l/in/photostream/ Tuesday, 31 January 12

PHP in

We just didn’t want to waste time anymore. Tuesday, 31 January 12

We wasted time fixing other code. deploying. testing. migrating data. building basic tools. Tuesday, 31 January 12

Some PHP projects have virtually zero concept of these basic ideas. Tuesday, 31 January 12

PHP isn’t so much a language as a random collection of arbitrary stuff. -

4,916 global functions in the PHP core Tuesday, 31 January 12

abs() acos() acosh() addcslashes() addslashes() aggregate() aggregate_info() aggregate_methods() aggregate_methods_by_list() aggregate_methods_by_regexp() aggregate_properties() aggregate_properties_by_list() aggregate_properties_by_regexp() aggregation_info() apache_child_terminate() apache_get_modules() apache_get_version() apache_getenv() apache_lookup_uri() apache_note() apache_request_headers() apache_reset_timeout() apache_response_headers() apache_setenv() apc_add() apc_cache_info() apc_clear_cache() apc_compile_file() apc_define_constants() apc_delete() apc_fetch() apc_load_constants() apc_sma_info() apc_store() apd_breakpoint() apd_callstack() apd_clunk() apd_continue() apd_croak() apd_dump_function_table() apd_dump_persistent_resources() apd_dump_regular_resources() apd_echo() apd_get_active_symbols() apd_set_pprof_trace() apd_set_session() apd_set_session_trace() apd_set_socket_session_trace() array() array_change_key_case() array_chunk() array_combine() array_count_values() array_diff() array_diff_assoc() array_diff_key() array_diff_uassoc() array_diff_ukey() array_fill() array_fill_keys() array_filter() array_flip() array_intersect() array_intersect_assoc() array_intersect_key() array_intersect_uassoc() array_intersect_ukey() array_key_exists() array_keys() array_map() array_merge() array_merge_recursive() array_multisort() array_pad() array_pop() array_product() array_push() array_rand() array_reduce() array_reverse() array_search() array_shift() array_slice() array_splice() array_sum() array_udiff() array_udiff_assoc() array_udiff_uassoc() array_uintersect() array_uintersect_assoc() array_uintersect_uassoc() array_unique() array_unshift() array_values() array_walk() array_walk_recursive() ArrayIterator::current() ArrayIterator::key() ArrayIterator::next() Tuesday, 31 January 12

abs() acos() acosh() addcslashes() addslashes() aggregate() aggregate_info() aggregate_methods() aggregate_methods_by_list() aggregate_methods_by_regexp() aggregate_properties() aggregate_properties_by_list() aggregate_properties_by_regexp() aggregation_info() apache_child_terminate() apache_get_modules() apache_get_version() apache_getenv() apache_lookup_uri() apache_note() apache_request_headers() apache_reset_timeout() apache_response_headers() apache_setenv() apc_add() apc_cache_info() apc_clear_cache() apc_compile_file() apc_define_constants() apc_delete() apc_fetch() apc_load_constants() apc_sma_info() apc_store() apd_breakpoint() apd_callstack() apd_clunk() apd_continue() apd_croak() apd_dump_function_table() apd_dump_persistent_resources() apd_dump_regular_resources() apd_echo() apd_get_active_symbols() apd_set_pprof_trace() apd_set_session() apd_set_session_trace() apd_set_socket_session_trace() array() array_change_key_case() array_chunk() array_combine() array_count_values() array_diff() array_diff_assoc() array_diff_key() array_diff_uassoc() array_diff_ukey() array_fill() array_fill_keys() array_filter() array_flip() array_intersect() array_intersect_assoc() array_intersect_key() array_intersect_uassoc() array_intersect_ukey() array_key_exists() array_keys() array_map() array_merge() array_merge_recursive() array_multisort() array_pad() array_pop() array_product() array_push() array_rand() array_reduce() array_reverse() array_search() array_shift() array_slice() array_splice() array_sum() array_udiff() array_udiff_assoc() array_udiff_uassoc() array_uintersect() array_uintersect_assoc() array_uintersect_uassoc() array_unique() array_unshift() array_values() array_walk() array_walk_recursive() ArrayIterator::current() ArrayIterator::key() ArrayIterator::next() $wtf; Tuesday, 31 January 12

PHP is very confused. Tuesday, 31 January 12

if (true == “false”){ echo “true is false”; } // If you run this you will actually see // “true is false”. I swear to god... // Tested on PHP 5.3.6 For Example Tuesday, 31 January 12

pear and pecl are simply bullshit. Tuesday, 31 January 12

Secretly... Some of our best PHP tools were written in Ruby. Tuesday, 31 January 12

ruby and

Ruby is well designed. Born from a labour of love. Tuesday, 31 January 12

Ruby was designed specifically for programmer happiness. Smile.

Happy coders are productive coders. Tuesday, 31 January 12

We could better structure our app by not worrying about our tools. Tuesday, 31 January 12

Our app became lean and focused as a result. Tuesday, 31 January 12

gem  “rails” gem  “airpos” Let’s talk about gems. Tuesday, 31 January 12

So is the hype justified? 0 25 50 75 100 2009 2010 2011 2012 Tuesday, 31 January 12

http://www.weebls-stuff.com/songs/magical+trevor/ Tuesday, 31 January 12

RAILS? rails? http://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2179203080/sizes/o/in/photostream/ Tuesday, 31 January 12

it’s not what you might think Tuesday, 31 January 12

There’s a Ruby way to do things http://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/6760135001/sizes/l/in/photostream/ Tuesday, 31 January 12

Quality Tuesday, 31 January 12

Quality reusability Tuesday, 31 January 12

Testing Quality reusability Tuesday, 31 January 12

Community Testing Quality reusability Tuesday, 31 January 12

giving a shit Tuesday, 31 January 12

is a deal BIG giving a shit Tuesday, 31 January 12

Wait, caring? http://www.flickr.com/photos/andynor/3582120797/sizes/o/in/photostream/ Tuesday, 31 January 12

you guys care lol,

Love what you do ruby

want to switch? and

we can help we’ve

we’re hiring come

one small example then

Example time class Kieran def self.drink!(what, how_many) # implementation... :) end end Kieran.drink! :beer, :all_of_them Tuesday, 31 January 12

thanks :) Tuesday, 31 January 12