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Yahoo Moving to PHP
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I attended this session. They never said they were reimplementing all of their C/C++ in PHP. They use C/C++ for all of the heavy duty backend processing. Currently, they have a mish mash of templating languages to call C/C++ routines and put pages together to serve up to the end user. They are simply replacing these scripting languages with PHP. Rasmus Lerdorf (who's now working at Yahoo) said in his keynote that he doesn't think implementing loads of business logic in PHP is a good idea for large sites. Instead he's a proponet of doing the intense stuff in C/C++ and using PHP as a wrapper for that code.
My thoughts exactly. If I want to run Windows apps I'm going to run it on Windows. Period. What we really need is not an emulator to run Windows programs but rather good quality native Linux apps so we won't want to run Windows apps in the first place. Sure, there's a few good ones like Gimp and XMMS but they are few and far inbetween.
How 'bout we just not use products that are known to have chronic security problems? That would send a clear message to iresponsible companies a lot better than some silly law.
I do think companies like Microsoft need to take more responsibility for the huge gaping security holess in their products but I'm not legislature is the right way to go about it. I do think consumers need to be better informed. When a Ford recalls a few vehicles over some potential saftey hazzard it's all over the evening news. But what about when a dangerous security hole is found in the world's most used operating system? The vast majority of users never even know about it.
With the economy being the worst it's been in over a decade then the decline in album sales seems to be about right. I know a couple of things. 1) When I didn't have a job for eight months I didn't go out and blow money on luxury items like music. 2) At $20 + tax for most for most new releases I'm buying much less music than I did when CDs sold for about $15 a pop.
The RIAA should take a good look at their pricing and product quality before blaming file sharing and CD buring for lower revenue.
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I attended this session. They never said they were reimplementing all of their C/C++ in PHP. They use C/C++ for all of the heavy duty backend processing. Currently, they have a mish mash of templating languages to call C/C++ routines and put pages together to serve up to the end user. They are simply replacing these scripting languages with PHP. Rasmus Lerdorf (who's now working at Yahoo) said in his keynote that he doesn't think implementing loads of business logic in PHP is a good idea for large sites. Instead he's a proponet of doing the intense stuff in C/C++ and using PHP as a wrapper for that code.
My thoughts exactly. If I want to run Windows apps I'm going to run it on Windows. Period. What we really need is not an emulator to run Windows programs but rather good quality native Linux apps so we won't want to run Windows apps in the first place. Sure, there's a few good ones like Gimp and XMMS but they are few and far inbetween.
I do think companies like Microsoft need to take more responsibility for the huge gaping security holess in their products but I'm not legislature is the right way to go about it. I do think consumers need to be better informed. When a Ford recalls a few vehicles over some potential saftey hazzard it's all over the evening news. But what about when a dangerous security hole is found in the world's most used operating system? The vast majority of users never even know about it.
With the economy being the worst it's been in over a decade then the decline in album sales seems to be about right. I know a couple of things. 1) When I didn't have a job for eight months I didn't go out and blow money on luxury items like music. 2) At $20 + tax for most for most new releases I'm buying much less music than I did when CDs sold for about $15 a pop. The RIAA should take a good look at their pricing and product quality before blaming file sharing and CD buring for lower revenue.