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Josh November 6, 2016 at 1:10 am.
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JoshHaven’t gotten to unit test my class yet, but the rate of basic PHP learning is good – (e.g. PHP object is a hashmap, PHP array is a balanced tree with int or string key, PHP uses define in methods to write a constant and const for static members in Classes – only PHP 7.1, which I don’t have a copy of yet, has public/protected/private modifiers on those const fields…)
My response to getting radiated depends on the strength, how certain I am about the ray of origin, & how easy it is for me to block to that ray. It’s easier to respond quickly when I have certainty about a point I can readily block. Sometimes, though, I have to suffer along for a bit until I figure out a good response strategy. And then different tasks are preferred depending on how & where I’m getting hit.
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JoshI’ve seen that PHP is dominating the server side of a significant space – commercial shared host, web hosting – and PHP is seemingly doing well, perhaps gaining ground in all web hosting. It’s an open source language that is strong on Linux,& it would be a financially insignificant effort for $MSFT to make sure that support for modern Windows OS is strong too. Microsoft invests so much money in some many different efforts…while this effort would only take a few dedicated engineers. But yet Windows support is kind of weak & falling behind…No PHP 7.0 yet for Windows, no Windows support for many POSIX based APIs. or parallel alternatives. Poor documentation of how to do basic things on a Windows box. I interpret that as a sign of cluelessness by MSFT mgmt. They are trying to sell servers. And developers want to match their devel machine to the server machine. Many hosts traditionally offered a choice of Linux or NT, but as demand for NT flags & MacOSX is more similar to Linux than NT in terms of APIs, the hosts stop offering Windows as an option & developers stop asking for it. I notice a change between 2012 and 2016 in terms of fewer host packages offering Windows. This reflects very poor mgmt. planning at MSFT. It’s not deep or visionary…they are not paying attention to basics.
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