Two questions

Anon

I like phpbuilder, internet.com have certainly got things covered.

I would like some feed back on two questions.

1.) How save is Open Source code under the GNU General Public License from abuse?

2.) In what technologies do you see the future of the Net being developed?

Anon

hi greg,

answer 1: how good is your lawyer 🙂

answer 2: ive heard php called 'perl for idiots'. i disagree. as websites get bigger and more complex it only makes sense to use a scripting language that makes developing and managing them easy. php is fast to code, runs fast, and is gaining a lot of recognition. so the technology ill be using is php...

-paul
http://xhawk.net

ame12

my opinion on #2:

My new preferred architecture (hard-core C/C++ background) is the following:

1) Presentation layer in PHP
2) Business rules in Java servlets, CGI or ISAPI
3) Database layer insulated by layer 2

That is, my PHP stuff makes pretty simplistic requests (via HTTP) of layer 2. Responses come back in XML. This is kind of a very simplified version of SOAP. All I need to do is parse some XML to get responses back from the layer 2.

Layer 2 (depending upon performance requirements) does all of the nitty gritty 'engine' work. This includes all (or at least most) database interaction, business rules and data crunching.

Layer 3 is simply Oracle, MySQL, LDAP or equivalent backend.

I'm really happy with how this architecture works in terms of productivity, division of labor and so forth.

Dave

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Anon

Thanks for the responses guys 🙂

PHP was developed in C and is very liner in structure.
This is set to change in the future as the technologies architecture
becomes more and more OO. PHP is also helping to move OS peer to peer
development in to the wider market place 🙂

XML and PHP do work well together as XML alows for some level of
basic meta data abstraction. I'm not a big fan of Java servlets, although
I can certainly see the merits of encapsulating high level business,
logic structures in Java or C++/CGI.

Recently in the position I've just left I was designing M$
trading / messaging systems using ASP, XML repositories and
database referencing schemas, COM business objects, MTS and MS
SQL server on Win 2000.

However I am keen to move away from this kind of weak inefficient bubble
wrapped solutions development.

I'm currently on a study break at the moment and have still got a long way to go but in the future. I will be most likely modelling in a PHP middle tire, XML, C++, Perl, Oracle dB, on *nix. I've also been looking at the .net platform and am interested in finding ways of integrating it with other technologies.

I hear that there are other people who do not work for, a certain large software
corporation. Who are currently working on ways of cloning this kind of
development platform.

Q. What's Ruby? And what's it used for? I saw someone mentioned it in an article I read the other day.

Q. I hear that Perl 6 is going to have better XML handling and manipulation capabilities. Does anyone know anything about this?

Greg🙂