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Created: 12 September 2007
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I am an internet consultant specialising in search and search-related product development. I have experience of end-to-end service provision including hardware infrastructure, routing, networking, operating systems, application software, development, user interface and combinations of services thereof. But I'm a chemical engineer by education, so have a broad interest in almost everything with an element of engineering and technological magic.

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Description: 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 Baby (cdbaby.com) website, and rewrite the entire thing in Rails, from scratch. I hired one of the best Rails programmers in the world (Jeremy Kemper aka bitsweat), and we set off on this huge task with intensity. The first few months showed good progress, and Jeremy could not have been more amazing, twisting the deep inner guts of Rails to make it do things it was never intended to do. But at every step, it seemed our needs clashed with Rails’ preferences. (Like trying to turn a train into a boat. It’s do-able with a lot of glue. But it’s damn hard. And certainly makes you ask why you’re really doing this.) Two years (!) later, after various setbacks, we were less than halfway done .* (To be fair to Jeremy’s mad skillz: many setbacks were because of tech emergencies t

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7 reasons I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails - O'Reilly Ruby

http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2007/09/7_reasons_i_switched_back_to_p_1.html

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 ... [More...] [Less...]

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Tags: php, framework, o'reilly, rails, ruby on rails