PHP Addiction - or, teach someone about python

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PHP addiction or, teach someone about python

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Bradley Whittington @darb / [email protected] http://github.com/bradwhittington (PHP) Dev / Ops manager at Motribe, a Mxit company (Python) Technical co-founder of Lessfuss

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“This would be easier in python” - that guy

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But... PHP is fine, for us.

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'0' == 0 Yes. That. Just. Happened.

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I grew up on PHP. It has paid lots of rent.

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HelloWorld.php: apt-get install apache2 php-5 echo "" > /var/www/index.php Open browser to http://localhost

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Let there be blog wget http://wordpress.org/latest.zip unzip ...

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Let's get all fancy Drupal, Symfony2, Code Ignitor, etc. etc. PHP packaging is matur{e,ing} too.

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Put it on the Internet

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I said plethora.

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This would be easier in python?

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“But, PHP is terrible.” - that guy

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“PHP: a fractal of bad design” http://goo.gl/vMtqz

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“Just Install Python.” - that guy

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Wut?

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I kid. Default on OSX, Linux LOL, Windows.

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“Just learn python” - that guy

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I kid http://learnpythonthehardway.org/ http://codecademy.com/tracks/python http://www.udacity.com/overview/Course/cs101/Course Rev/apr2012

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I wanted to make a internet website.

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"HOWTO Use Python in the web" http://docs.python.org/howto/webservers.html

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Wut.

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“Just learn Django” - zZzzZZzz

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I did the tutorial, tell me more

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Djangobook! Django Version 1.0. After the magic was removed. In 2009. Erk.

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Let's poke around

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(test)vagrant@lucid32:fubar$ wc -l settings.py 151 (test)vagrant@lucid32:django$ find .|grep py$|wc -l 997

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Just learn Flask|Bottle|Pyramid

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Back to Django

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Django HelloWorld (Ghetto style): $ vim urls.py from django.conf.urls import patterns, include, url from django.http import HttpResponse def hello(request): return HttpResponse('Ohai') urlpatterns = patterns('', (r'^$', hello), ) :wq $ ./manage.py runserver ... $ xdg-open http://localhost:8000

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Let's show the world.

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Huh.

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daemonize your mod_wsgi process in apache Or gunicorn it. Or uWSGI. You cray if you mod_python, bro. ♬♫♬♫ Don't forget your static files. ♫♪♬♫

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Sure, it's no “Just rake your passenger and phusion your apache gem”

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But, install your requirements file under a virtualenv. Buddy. Cos, you know, http://www.12factor.net/

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Huh.

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