Going back to PHP
Recently I sweared to myself that I wasn’t going back to PHP ever again, as I have gotten comfortable using Ruby on Rails. I guess I will have to swollow those words, as it seems I’m going back to PHP for a while. A programming job that gives me the chance to contribute to like I have never done before to the inline skating community.
So right now, I’m spending time copying the wonderful has_many, has_one, and belongs_to to my PHP framework. Just can’t make it as elegant and simple as possible in Ruby. Right now it is loading everything up front that is in the has_many, etc. class variables instead of doing lazy loading. Ruby is just so much easier! Argh!
Can’t wait to get back to the Ruby world. May this suffering be as short-lasting as possible.
December 28th, 2005 at 3:21 am
[...] From recent experience of having to go back to PHP (a demand from a client), I can say that the programming language you choose sets your limits as much as the framework you choose. Things that are possible in Ruby are just not possible in Java – and certainly not in PHP. My PHP on Rails can attest to that! [...]