Had an interesting discussion with blowmage (Mike Moore) over Twitter. I said that having the “param1/param2″ pattern in the ASP.NET MVC made me itchy from a security standpoint. He replied.
Eh, just don’t add them to the URL. The ASP.NET MVC assumes you know what you are doing. I’m sick of frameworks babysitting me.
I replied:
and yet [...]
All of the latest Rails/Twitter performance bruhaha made me think about some advice I got a long time ago and that I dish out whenever someone asks me about some performance concerns they have with their code.
Nothing else matters once you hit the disk. Once you do any kind of activity that involves reading/writing to [...]
Most of the radical changes are in the Zend Engine 2.0 and the most important change is the addition of many keywords associated with object oriented programming (final, destructors, abstract, etc…). Which makes me wonder; If PHP supports a C syntax and has the object oriented features of C++, why wouldn’t you go ahead and [...]
PHP has been around for a few years now and has matured as a language. Why should you use it over ASP, JSP, or Perl when you are building a web application? With a veritable alphabet of programming languages to choose from when you decide towrite a web based application, why should you choose PHP [...]
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