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I am pretty sure PHP can do more than just web guestbooks. You know, little things, like running Friendster, Yahoo, and GAIA Online. I've also run apps like the OSS Horde/IMP web-based mail front-end with tens of thousands of users. I reuse PHP code all the time. And if you add in some of the code optimizers and server accelerators, you can really make PHP sing.

You also wrote, "Thanks for wasting years of my life and teaching me bad programming habits, PHP." Which bad habits would that be? There are good and bad ways of writing PHP, just like there are with ANY computer language.

That's a pretty well-known dataloss bug in iTunes, and a lot of people have gotten bitten by it - random example. Of course, because Apple did it, it's okay. OTOH when Windows reboots because you've set it to reboot after applying updates automatically users rip it a new one.

The very best way to serve up 'baked' pages using WordPress is Staticize Reloaded, which also allows some parts of a page to stay 'fried' on load, with other pages 'baked' for you. This is a way better solution than building your own caches.

You can install Crossover in Linux and then iTunes runs. As well as a lot of other Windows Applications.

http://www.codeweavers.com/products/cxoffice/

But anyway if you switch from MS, you're gonna miss this:

http://photomatt.net/2004/10/15/bizarre-windows-be havior/

Wordpress is a blog tool using php.

You can generate html using this plugin.

http://photomatt.net/2004/07/26/staticize-25/

That's usually done to keep the text more readable. I find myself resizing fluid sites so I can more easily read what's on the page myself when I'm using a high res monitor. Tis also easier if we know when designing a page what width it will be. Takes one more element of Surprise!!! out of the webdesign process. It's old but there's good discussion on it here: http://photomatt.net/2003/12/11/death-of-flexible- width-designs/

http://photomatt.net/2005/04/01/a-response/

New, more thorough response

The difference being that Blogger's spam isn't created by the people that run Blogger.

The uproar is over the fact that the lead developer and site maintainer of Wordpress was responsible for hosting the spammy pages. Even the page for donations has the hidden links.

The stated reason for this is to cover his costs and hire a full-time developer, but this raises a lot of questions about the need to do so -- What exactly are those costs? And is it really worth hiring a full-timer if it has to be funded with spam?

It doesn't help his case that he's presently on vacation in Italy.

(I'm not trying to bash him personally -- just trying to clarify the issue for those that don't understand.)

There are plenty of CMSs out there that produce static html files as their output. MovableType, as much as I hate to plug them, is one. There are others.

There is nothing inherent to CMSs that cause this CPU hit you are talking about. Certain CMSs are designed for highly-dynamic sites where MovableType's 'rebuilding' method would become annoying, and others are designed for sites that still need the benefits of a central CMS but are more static. And then there are still more than combine aspects of both, like Wordpress with the Staticize plugin.

It's not a dream anymore for some, it's a reality. Just like Matt Mullenweg was recently hired by C|Net because of his work on WordPress.

It's not a dream anymore for some, it's a reality. Just like Matt Mullenweg was recently hired by C|Net because of his work on WordPress.