[nycphp-talk] PHP popularity vs. strength
Hans Zaunere
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Fri Feb 4 10:38:22 EST 2005
That's a great story; another example of simple sometimes is better.
H
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew Terenzio [mailto:matt at jobsforge.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 9:13 PM
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> Subject: [nycphp-talk] PHP popularity vs. strength
>
> Quick story:
>
> I work for a local newspaper website, but we are a big News
> Corporation. Lots of money and lots of Java technology.
>
> We are about a month behind schedule for a launch of a hosted
> obituaries solution with an outside vendor.
>
> The IT department was working on a feed script. I asked how it was
> going.
>
> "We are really busy. we may have to hire someone from outside to write
> it. "
> I heard this as "it's tougher than I thought, I don't know regular
> expressions very well."
> I don't know this worker well, though I heard he is a Solaris snob. (I
> have nothing against Solaris, only his disregard for FreeBSD and Linux)
>
> "Do you want to take a look at it?" they asked.
> "Okay, " I said, "what platform is it running on.?"
> "Unix or Mac OS X." (lots of Macs in the Printing business)
>
> That was at ten a.m.
> By the time I left, PHP had it working.
> I probably could have done it without preg_match , but I used it anyway
> as it made it more flexible.
>
> Now I probably saved the company a thousand dollars, the IT project
> manager a headache, and myself some drudgery, since we upload the obits
> manually every day till this gets launched.
>
> But I won't even get a free lunch.
>
> It's running on an OS X server, so PHP was installed already.
> I saw the IT director.
> "hey, did you hear about that script I wrote for you guys? blah blah"
> "really, what did you write it in?"
> "PHP."
> "What's that?"
>
> "OOooh that hurts."
>
>
>
>
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