7 reasons I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails

Why I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails
INTRO / BACKGROUND:
Back in January 2005, I announced on the O’Reilly blog that I was going to completely scrap over 100,000 lines of messy PHP code in my existing CD…

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7 reasons I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails. After two years working on a Rails rewrite of CD Baby, Derek Sivers scrapped it and instead rewrote the PHP version using Rails-inspired design principles. Derek…

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7 reasons I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails — Why I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails — INTRO / BACKGROUND: — Back in January 2005, I announced on the O'Reilly blog that I was…

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7 reasons I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails
I like Ruby. A lot. For me, Ruby is kind of like “Revenge of the Smalltalk Nerds”. I don’t have any strong feelings about Rails, but the couple of times I…

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Welcome back on PHP from f#cked ruby!

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