Another view on php from a java developer
PHP Web Projects Continue to Impress Me: Delivering a positive view of WordPress (which is the system behind my blog), Russell Beattie provides some comments on the difficulties of java development: “Once again I ask - why is Java web programming not keeping up? Why are Java web projects so bloated (I’ve got 5+MB of .jar files in my current web project and I think more are coming). Why are the pages so difficult to set up, maintain. Why do Java programmers insist on putting more logic in standard Java classes that make me have to touch ant, wait for compile and many times reboot my web server in order to test?
I think it’s because PHP programmers want to get stuff done and Java programmers are geeks who want do stuff the “right” way. I’m getting sick of being in the latter camp. “
I think it is becomming more and more possible to do it the “right” way with php - especially with php5 on its way and sites like phpPatterns to help guide us along. One of my buddies from frogdesign - who is a java developer - is coming all the way down here to Cape Town to work with me on a php5 project - it will be interesting to see how he takes to the new php5 object model and how we can merge our development techniques. I’ll be blogging our observations.
