Switching from PHP to Python
The folks at Remarkable Wit were kind enough to invite me to talk at the Enterprise LAMP group here in Nashville tonight. I choose the somewhat thorny topic of moving our application from PHP to Python, specifically Django.
I tried to be as impartial as I could because I still like PHP and write it every day. It has paid my bills for nearly a decade, so I have nothing but love for it. However, I’m very excited about the future of my coding and our application now that we’ve switched to Python/Django. I really tried to be honest about mistakes we might have made and the rough spots that we’ve encountered while also pointing out some benefits we’ve realized.
The slides are up here: http://www.slideshare.net/aezell/switching-from-php-to-python
They’ll be a little confusing without my commentary, so if there are questions, please comment and I will try to address them.
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Tags: django, lamp, php, Python, switching
It was a great talk, Alex.
I really like that you wanted to avoid religious discussions about languages. I tend to fall into that trap when there are multiple alternatives in text editors, languages, or frameworks. It’s best to just pick something that works and run with it.
In a recent article about Mercurial vs. Git, Geoffrey Grosenbach talked about how the smartest programmers are the most well-rounded. Zealots don’t make good pragmatists.