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CodeSOD: Paste Parse

The Daily WTF

"Simple" for Bjørn is "do as much in PHP as possible since I am okay at PHP, including templating out JavaScript. Advertisement]. Sandra ( previously ) is still working with Bjørn. Bjørn also continues to like keeping things… simple. "Simple" This line exists, it doesn't work, and shouldn't be there.

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CodeSOD: The Data Class

The Daily WTF

For example, imagine you’re browsing a PHP codebase and see something like: $fmtedDate = data::now(); You’d instantly know that something was up, just by seeing a class named data. Unfortunately, Vania has this to add: Unfortunately there is no budget for making this kind of change to the application. Advertisement].

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How MVP helped these Four Unicorns-Uber, AirBnB, Dropbox, Zappos

Enlume

Building an MVP requires less hours and a small budget, whereas a polished and shelf-ready product demands substantial amount of time and money. It was developed on PHP, which used to allow customers to ‘hire’ a car, one and only car owned by Uber at the time. Uber is a good example for MVP (Minimum Viable Product) model.

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5 Tips to Hire Best Coders for Projects

The Crazy Programmer

You’ll need a MySQL expert to work with databases, a PHP coder for a project with dynamic web pages, or someone who is knowledgeable with the Python language for a back-end project. You’ll have to consider the scope of the project and your budget to determine the best language. Do You Need More Than One Expert?

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Lowest Bidder Squared

The Daily WTF

The website was dog slow, and the budget had been exceeded by a factor of five already trying to fix it. "Facebook was written in PHP. So we're going to completely redo the website in PHP," the president confidently announced at the next all-hands meeting. "I Advertisement]. Initech was in dire straits.

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Technology Trends for 2024

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Companies aren’t going to throw out 20 years’ investment in PHP so they can adopt the latest popular React framework, which will probably be displaced by another popular framework next year. Web development What about PHP, another long-standing framework that dates back to 1995, when the web was indeed young? PHP grew 5.9%

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Detect to Correct: 9 Bug Tracking Tools for Smooth Workflow

Altexsoft

If you’re looking for a budget version of a functional bug-tracking app – this is it. Mantis is written using the PHP framework and supports databases such as PostgreSQL, MySQL, MsSQL. The last stable version came out almost a year ago and it is probably about time for some updates. This one is another free source tool.

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