Comments on: Dutch PHP Conference 2008: elePHPants, mayo, ogres and rabbits

By: FxScalpermen

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By: LornaJane

LornaJane — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:29:34 +0000

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By: Links for this week : Peter Breuls’s Weblog

Links for this week : Peter Breuls’s Weblog — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 11:45:08 +0000

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By: Andrew Mager

Andrew Mager — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:32:15 +0000

Did someone say Terry Chay?!

By: rick

rick — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:15:38 +0000

@Boy: People critical of the PHP5 upgrade path and release policy, hosting providers that have to deal new PHP versions breaking old sites, people critical of PHP’s OOP implementation or PHP’s security policies, people critical about ZF’s integration with Dojo, that kind of thing. And of course, the jury is still out on PHP being ready for the “Enterprise” (the business type, not the starship). There’s been plenty of discussion online about these things.

And maybe not dissenting but different voices, like Microsoft (wtf do they want with PHP?), and as we seem to be so pre-occupied with Ruby, why not ask one of the many PHP to Ruby switchers?

One thing I found worrying that so very few attending developers ever used anything other than PHP. That combined with prejudices being propagated from the stage doesn’t make for better PHP developers, quite the contrary. I think a conference is way better if it also challenges peoples ideas and preconceptions instead of just confirming them.