http://barelyenough.org/blog/2005/07/the-joy-of-programming/ … and there is much to be learned Sun, 06 May 2012 15:09:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://barelyenough.org/blog/2005/07/the-joy-of-programming/comment-page-1/#comment-2903 Peter Williams » Early impressions of PHP Tue, 10 Oct 2006 20:48:30 +0000 http://pezra.barelyenough.org/blog/2005/07/the-joy-of-programming/#comment-2903 <p>[...] In my new job I am getting a chance to really learn PHP. PHP is the workhorse of the web these days. There are tons of web applications written in PHP, probably more than any other language or framework. This is primarily because it is so productive, as I found out a while ago. All that being said, I find PHP really weird. I should note that I have only used PHP 4. Because we use PHP 4 in production here, I have not take much time to check out what is different in PHP 5. [...]</p> [...] In my new job I am getting a chance to really learn PHP. PHP is the workhorse of the web these days. There are tons of web applications written in PHP, probably more than any other language or framework. This is primarily because it is so productive, as I found out a while ago. All that being said, I find PHP really weird. I should note that I have only used PHP 4. Because we use PHP 4 in production here, I have not take much time to check out what is different in PHP 5. [...]

]]> http://barelyenough.org/blog/2005/07/the-joy-of-programming/comment-page-1/#comment-152 Peter Williams’ Weblog » Blog Archive » The Power of Ruby (and Semantic Markup) Wed, 28 Sep 2005 18:49:43 +0000 http://pezra.barelyenough.org/blog/2005/07/the-joy-of-programming/#comment-152 [...] For example, yesterday we had a minor issue here at work. We fixed the problem quickly but there were are few orders that we need to watch, just to make sure there were no residual issues. So I grabbed my trusty Emacs and IRB and wrote a little, 50-ish lines long, ruby script to mash-up information from a little web application and a bunch of files on disk to let me easily keep track of how things were progressing. I would not have even tried that with shell scripting (or with any other language I know, for that matter) but it saved several hours and completely removed the risk that something important would slip through the cracks. [...] [...] For example, yesterday we had a minor issue here at work. We fixed the problem quickly but there were are few orders that we need to watch, just to make sure there were no residual issues. So I grabbed my trusty Emacs and IRB and wrote a little, 50-ish lines long, ruby script to mash-up information from a little web application and a bunch of files on disk to let me easily keep track of how things were progressing. I would not have even tried that with shell scripting (or with any other language I know, for that matter) but it saved several hours and completely removed the risk that something important would slip through the cracks. [...]

]]> http://barelyenough.org/blog/2005/07/the-joy-of-programming/comment-page-1/#comment-75 Peter Williams’ Weblog » Blog Archive » Being Your User Fri, 12 Aug 2005 18:47:55 +0000 http://pezra.barelyenough.org/blog/2005/07/the-joy-of-programming/#comment-75 [...] It is easy to be passionate about things that are pretty. Second, I finally saw ops using a tool I wrote. That gave me a little “I rule” moment. Finally, [...] [...] It is easy to be passionate about things that are pretty. Second, I finally saw ops using a tool I wrote. That gave me a little “I rule” moment. Finally, [...]

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