Directions…
I haven’t coded anything in PHP for something like 3 years, anyone care to give some advice on how to update myself (is it worth it?), should I learn something new (I started reading a ruby book recently), should I go back to PHP and learn it seriously?
I ask this because I don’t like the direction my line of work is taking, it’s too focused on one development tool that is leaving me crippled (aka high level programming), I’m scared that one these days this bubble bursts…
January 30th, 2007 at 15:02
Well, I’m riding the PHP horse right now, actually I have been for the last few years. I know it’s not Teh Coolest Thing on Earth and Beyond (that’s RoR on Textmate
) but the language evolved a bit in the last years, and version 6 (hopefully unlike Perl6) is coming sooner or later so, IMO is a good bet 
Just grab Eclipse + PDT + Aptana + Mylar + Subclipse (ufff a few other too) and you’re a happy PHP developer
January 30th, 2007 at 15:10
All that? What happened to Notepad, strike that, Emacs?
Just kidding.
January 30th, 2007 at 15:17
c:>copy con tony.php
^Z
1 file(s) copied.
also works
January 30th, 2007 at 17:32
Depende sempre do tipo de empresas queres trabalhar.
Apesar de eu achar que deves ter sempre o PHP em consideração. É uma linguagem que consegues óptimos resultados em projectos de todas as dimensões.
Além de que, nunca precisa de grandes condições. Corre em IIS, Apache, lighthttpd é multi-plataforma e existem quilhentos ISP’s que fornecem esse tipo de soluções, logo podem ser mais vantajosos para os clientes/empresas com quem trabalhes.
Ruby, Python são obviamente bons, mas existem poucas empresas à procura disso (actualmente), mas pode mudar…
January 30th, 2007 at 17:43
O PHP não é para deixar de lado, mas aconselho-te Ruby on Rails, em Linux podes usar o http://www.RadRails.org como IDE =)
February 6th, 2007 at 14:10
Well, just keep in mind that there are already LOTS of stuff built in PHP that you can use as components, the largest collection being http://pear.php.net/.
RoR is quite good (just give it a couple more years to handle unicode and to better support several languages per application), so much that the PHP world has started following: use a framework like CodeIgniter/Symfony/CakePHP/others if you’re going to develop the typical RoR app in PHP, or if you want a codebase that covers most of the basic needs in your web app.