PHP has a massive installation base, it's not going anywhere.
On that note. Let's all keep running Windows!
As a person who has stopped working in PHP and has moved his business and new clients to Ruby on Rails... I can assure you, Rails is going to be huge in another year.:-)
(at least it better be... );-)
Recently, I read a brief interview with Derek Sivers of CDBaby and he discussed how he has no intentions of taking on all these great ideas that people send him for the future of CDBaby... such as online radio stations.. and other forms of music related features. He pointed out that CDBaby is an online music store and nothing more. The more you spread yourself, well... you know what can happen. You can grow too quickly and have too many things to manage... or you can be really good at what you do. CDBaby is really good at what they do.
Netflix is *really* good at what they do.
When I stick my returning DVD in the mail before 6pm on the weekday, I get the next one in my queue 2 days later. My girlfriend and I have the 3 dvd at a time package and it works great. They are adding new features all the time (RSS feeds of my queue, recommendations, etc)... and now have Friends features. I can find movies that I cannot find at blockbuster or hollywood. I have been a Netflix customer for 3 years now and don't regret a single payment.
It would take a lot for me to want to switch away from a quality service in favor of a company that tries to get themselves involved in every online market out there.
Yes you get your OWN running version of PostgreSQL.:-)
The pgsql server runs as your user so you don't cause any problems to other customers. Your own instance..own port, etc.
Postgres is really an Oracle killer at this point, and I know, having used Oracle. There is quite simply no reason to use any other relational database at this point, especially to back a live web site.
Exactly, the biggest mistake that I see among people is that they compare MySQL and PostgreSQL when they're not even in the same arena. Both being open source databases, but their feature sets put them in much different categories. PostgreSQL is much more advanced than MySQL..and it's a lame argument at this point. Watch out Oracle.;-)
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Recently, I read a brief interview with Derek Sivers of CDBaby and he discussed how he has no intentions of taking on all these great ideas that people send him for the future of CDBaby... such as online radio stations.. and other forms of music related features. He pointed out that CDBaby is an online music store and nothing more. The more you spread yourself, well... you know what can happen. You can grow too quickly and have too many things to manage... or you can be really good at what you do. CDBaby is really good at what they do.
:-)
Netflix is *really* good at what they do.
When I stick my returning DVD in the mail before 6pm on the weekday, I get the next one in my queue 2 days later. My girlfriend and I have the 3 dvd at a time package and it works great. They are adding new features all the time (RSS feeds of my queue, recommendations, etc)... and now have Friends features. I can find movies that I cannot find at blockbuster or hollywood. I have been a Netflix customer for 3 years now and don't regret a single payment.
It would take a lot for me to want to switch away from a quality service in favor of a company that tries to get themselves involved in every online market out there.
Advantage: Netflix.
Check out ODEO for podcasting goodness. Works WITH LINUX!
http://www.odeo.com/
Was also built using Ruby on Rails
There are currently 5 books in the works about Ruby on Rails (two by O'Reilly). :-)
There is a growing number of people using Rails as a framework.
Our PostgreSQL hosting services has been far surpassed by our Rails hosting.
Rails is amazing. If you asked us if we thought that would ever happen in January, we would have laughed.
That's the default Rails error page. Wasn't keeping up with the /. load with the default settings.
Try again now.
Nicely put, Derek. :-)
High Traffic? CDBaby is working on a new site in Rails. ODEO will be launched soon. 43Things.com is based in Rails.
A bunch of people posted specific projects to try out on my blog:
rails day projects to try
Little by Little.. Slashdot is reporting information way after the fact. Is Slashdot still a place to find out "new" news anymore?
There is a book coming out called, "The Dharma of Star Wars"
Planet Ruby on Rails (bunch of RSS feeds). The Ruby community is growing like a wild fire. :-)
http://blog.planetargon.com/archives/36-Installing -PostgreSQL-8.0-alongside-7.4.html
it handles regex's...
Yes you get your OWN running version of PostgreSQL. :-)
The pgsql server runs as your user so you don't cause any problems to other customers. Your own instance..own port, etc.
When they start using db abstraction layers and stop doing that. ;-)
If you want referencial integrity of your data...
Don't forget plPHP:
plPHP
PHP/PostgreSQL hosting We FAVOR PostgreSQL. :-)
Slony1, open source postgresql replication!
Exactly, the biggest mistake that I see among people is that they compare MySQL and PostgreSQL when they're not even in the same arena. Both being open source databases, but their feature sets put them in much different categories. PostgreSQL is much more advanced than MySQL..and it's a lame argument at this point. Watch out Oracle.
We got up early to provide customers with the full release before they started their workday. :-)
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Cheap POSTGRESQL Web Hosting. ;-)
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PostgreSQL is the roXXorz.