PHP and building some important stuff
I have been pretty busy with a couple of other things and frankly having way too many meetings in Starbucks so my PHP project has not gotten very far. Clearly I need to better manage my priorities.
Over the last few weeks, I have spent a lot of time with my web friends and one of the things I began wondering and asking around was just what has been built on PHP. Now this is far from perfect but here are some of the top sites that leverage PHP heavily:
Wikipedia
Yahoo
Napster
Digg
And even Sourceforge
All of these are of course places where lots of scale is required and significant flexibility in changing the front end is important. My favorite is Wikipedia. The concept of a user generated application growing to the 7th ranked web destination (yes above AOL) is very powerful. It is clear with important applications like this, it was time to bring the CodeGear Magic to PHP.
Lots of work left to do to get the product perfect, but clearly PHP from CodeGear is something a development focused company had to bring to market. I am looking forward to seeing CodeGear impact on other areas, like Ruby.
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Posted by Ben Smith on May 2nd, 2007 under Uncategorized |
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