OMG PHP WTF?!
I have to make an embarrassing confession…
Many years ago (around 2002) I built a website in PHP. It was for a — now defunct — theatre company and included some basic functionality like a calendar and some lightweight content management features in a custom admin module I built. It was a small side project that I took on, in part, to learn PHP.
I came away from that experience thinking PHP was a steaming pile of garbage and I would tell anyone that would listen to me how terrible I thought PHP was. Here’s the embarrassing part; despite trashing PHP up and down, some of the websites and tools I use the most are PHP-based. This includes Wikipedia and Facebook. It also includes Wordpress, which is my number 1 recommendation when people ask me how they can create a website quickly with zero skills and almost no budget.
Author’s Note: This post is an excerpt from my weekly Dev Mastery newsletter. It was originally sent to Dev Mastery subscribers on October 19, 2016.
Now I’ve come to find out that Slack — another tool I use every day — is built with PHP. A slack engineer by the name of Keith Adams published a story on Medium that I think is worth a serious look. Link below…
On a less embarrassing and more humbling note. I was honoured recently to be included in a list of Free Code Camp co-founder, Quincy Larson’s favourite stories of the year. I can’t say enough good about Quincy and his team and all the amazing things they are doing for burgeoning developers and for non-profits. Not to mention the stellar quality of their Medium publication.
I always look forward to reading their latest posts. Here are some of my recent favourites…
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