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Re: Help needed for choosing server side technology !

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On 07/26/11 08:01 PM, vaib wrote:
> On Jul 26, 2:27 am, Ian Collins<ian-n...@hotmail.com>  wrote:
>> On 07/26/11 12:54 AM, vaib wrote:
>>> On Jul 25, 2:17 pm, "BartC"<b...@freeuk.com>    wrote:
>>
>>>> OK, what are the choices then, if you can only use a language that you know
>>>> inside-out?
>>
>>> Well thats where we are confused.
>>
>>> Whether to code in what we know(this will help us ship faster and we'd
>>> write good code with some technology oriented best practices but have
>>> certain disadvantages - the server has to be windows) OR should we
>>> delay the project and pick up a new technology (like Php) altogether
>>> and code the project in it. Picking up something new has certain
>>> disadvantages too - we'd ship late and the initial betas will have a
>>> lot of inefficient code(being practical) since we also have to attend
>>> office during daytime.
>>
>>> So, we are looking for people who might have made such decisions in
>>> the past. And also, what do you think should be the right way to go
>>> about it? What would you do if you were in our boots?
>>
>> The first time I picked up a PHP book was the day I agreed to write the
>> server side of a web application in PHP!
>>
>> If you are familiar with a couple of other programming languages
>> (especially anything derived from C), PHP is very easy to learn and it
>> is trivial to deploy.  It has a very good unit test framework (PHPUnit)
>> that integrates well with at least one IDE (NetBeans), so you can write
>> quality code from day one.  It might not be optimal code, but you can
>> always go back and refactor it later.
>
> And Ian you were doing this stuff by yourself or was it something
> required at work?

I was paid for the work if that's what you're asking.

-- 
Ian Collins

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Help needed for choosing server side technology ! vaib <vaibhavpanghal@gmail.com> - 2011-07-24 13:28 -0700
  Re: Help needed for choosing server side technology ! Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-07-25 09:11 +1200
    Re: Help needed for choosing server side technology ! vaib <vaibhavpanghal@gmail.com> - 2011-07-25 01:52 -0700
      Re: Help needed for choosing server side technology ! "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2011-07-25 10:17 +0100
        Re: Help needed for choosing server side technology ! vaib <vaibhavpanghal@gmail.com> - 2011-07-25 05:54 -0700
          Re: Help needed for choosing server side technology ! Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-07-26 09:27 +1200
            Re: Help needed for choosing server side technology ! vaib <vaibhavpanghal@gmail.com> - 2011-07-26 01:01 -0700
              Re: Help needed for choosing server side technology ! Ian Collins <ian-news@hotmail.com> - 2011-07-26 22:38 +1200
                Re: Help needed for choosing server side technology ! vaib <vaibhavpanghal@gmail.com> - 2011-07-26 09:37 -0700
      Re: Help needed for choosing server side technology ! Rui Maciel <rui.maciel@gmail.com> - 2011-07-27 00:54 +0100
        Re: Help needed for choosing server side technology ! vaib <vaibhavpanghal@gmail.com> - 2011-07-27 00:51 -0700

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