On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Eric Butera <eric.butera@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 3:07 PM, haliphax <haliphax@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> Sadly, my company is throwing PHP out the window in favor of ASP.NET, >> as they have an irrational fear of Open Source software. Don't get me >> wrong--.NET is pretty darn cool--but I literally enjoy working in PHP. >> The fact that I don't need an IDE to unlock the majority of the >> language's functionality is nice. (Editing a config file by hand or >> using more than a couple of nested libraries without code completion >> is a nightmare in .NET) >> >> Anyway, it's already been decided. Hell, they use Microsoft for damn >> near everything else. I guess the mainstream mentality has overpowered >> honest consideration for an "alternative" (not my words) solution's >> merits. > > Yes my company has done work for shops like that. It does seem like > there is a big line drawn in the sand us vs them. =) Good luck Todd! > We'll miss you. :D Ha! You're not getting rid of me that easily. ;) I still do pretty much all of my independent development in PHP (for paying clients and for my own interests... mostly my own interests as I'm juggling school and work and a band). I've recently started playing with the CodeIgniter framework, and it's renewed my love for the language all over again. I had tinkered with MVC for a bit in Java (of course) and ASP.NET, but it's nice to find such a clean, elegant package for it in PHP to keep the momentum going for me. Right now, I'm working on an AJAX (jQuery) and PHP (CodeIgniter) web-based MMORPG in the vein of Urban Dead [1] that has been bouncing around in my head in the form of one idea or another for a little over a decade. Started out as a BBS door, then a stand-alone telnet server, then a C++ application, then a Java applet, and now I'm on the second incarnation of an XHTML/JS implementation that is showing some serious promise. No doubt I'll be hitting the list with some interesting questions in the near future. ;) Links: 1. http://www.urbandead.com/ -- // Todd -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
