It’s true. I’m sitting here coding in PHP using the Zend Framework and all I can think about is how much nicer Rails is, or how much easier it is to do [x] in Ruby. It’s not that the Zend Framework is bad or anything, it’s quite nice, but you just can’t match Ruby’s expressiveness in a language like PHP. Add the amazing convenience Rails builds on top of Ruby and that’s a really hard combo to compete with.
Working with the Zend Framework 0
Posted by sjs
on Thursday, July 06
At Seekport I’m currently working on an app to handle the config of their business-to-business search engine. It’s web-based and I’m using PHP, since that’s what they’re re-doing the front-end in. Right now it’s a big mess of Perl, the main developer (for the front-end) is gone, and they’re having trouble managing it. I have read through it, and it’s pretty dismal. They have config mixed with logic and duplicated code all over the place. There’s an 1100 line sub in one of the perl modules. Agh!
