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reddragdivaThat disconcerting sensation of wanting the Daily Mail to win.
RationalWiki: Examiner.com, Continuum fallacy.
Rocknerd: Party Fears #17 scanned and online (also done most of what would have been #19); Simple Minds, Devo, The Church: Palais, November 30.
You have a problem, you think "I know, I'll use PHP!" Now Ukrainian h@xx0rs pwn your problem. I've been clearing out stuff at work, putting the PHP onto one server and getting PHP off any URL it doesn't belong on. As a drug, PHP is not like heroin, more like petrol huffing. As a weapon, it's a dirty bomb: not much visible damage, but a nasty cleanup job. I picture post-apocalyptic three-headed mutants chewing on roast mutant dog around a PCB fire, communicating entirely in PHP. I so wish people would stop building useful things on a foundation of retarded toxic waste.
We have also looked at 'l33t3r alternatives to Apache. The trouble with getting rid of Apache is that it ends up like replacing a Swiss army knife with a kitchen drawer full of 20 individual replacement gadgets. Which jams shut a lot.
It's the same fallacy as the NoSQL movement: you are not Google, you do not have Google's problems of scale and you'll end up building the equivalent of a relational database on top, except even worse than MySQL.
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Date: 2012-12-08 08:56 pm (UTC)https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/python/datastore/gqlreference
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Date: 2012-12-09 02:40 am (UTC)I'd actively consider it for our stuff -- wherein we fetch and analyse web pages -- but if I were going to stick it all in a database more sophisticated than the filesystem then pgsql wins for the full-text search.
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Date: 2012-12-10 05:25 am (UTC)OO-PHP is just around the corner!
(It will have a rendez-vous with Perl 6.)
It's the same fallacy as the NoSQL movement
But MongoDB is web scale!