Them’s fightin’ words

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Dec 13, 20071 min

From the cover of Dr. Dobb’s Journal (Jan/2008):

PHP: The Power Behind Web 2.0

The article goes on to take a much less aggressive tone, simply saying that PHP is a good language for building web sites/applications that make use of Ajax and Web services, but let’s be honest: you walk into a bar anywhere in the San Jose, Burlington or Redmond areas and say that kind of thing out loud, yer gonna get tossed out on yer keester.>

Only because you’re saying “Web 2.0”, mind you. *shudder* All those in favor of “alt.death.to.tim.oreilly.for.coining.that.phrase” newsgroup, say Aye….


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Ted Neward is an independent consultant specializing in high-scale enterprise systems, working with clients ranging in size from Fortune 500 corporations to small 10-person shops. He is an authority in Java and .NET technologies, particularly in the areas of Java/.NET integration (both in-process and via integration tools like Web services), back-end enterprise software systems, and virtual machine/execution engine plumbing. He lives in the Pacific Northwest with his wife, two sons, and eight PCs.

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