Answered in Quora: Q: What is the easiest/fastest way to set up AWS to repeatedly run a small Python or PHP script (24×7)? Probably the easiest way is to use Lambda. It has a built-in scheduler and you only pay for the time it is running. (Note that in PHP you have to create a […]
Answered in Quora: Q: What’s something very few people know about PHP? It is mind-bogglingly popular for web development. That popularity hasn’t diminished even though conventional wisdom says otherwise… Over a decade ago, I said about 40% of the top 100 websites use PHP — a number I pulled out of my ass — but […]
Answered in Quora Q: Which has better packages, Python or PHP? It depends on the target utility. In the Python world, the most common package installer is pip; the PHP world didn’t settle on a dominant format/installation for packages until composer, and that was relatively recently (last 4 years). … The reason for this is […]
Web Code by Terry Chay Preface Programming, it turns out, is hard. —Eloquent Javascript (and typical) One day, a friend came back from a seminar at which the panelists were a coterie of white, male, twenty-something college founders of various startups you might have heard of. “They said learning to code is hard. They implied […]
(I received an answer request from someone on Quora for this question. At the time of my writing, there were only two answers, both that boiled down to “use Python.” While I feel I was asked to balance out that with some PHP cheerleading, I can’t bring myself to do that. Nor, can I hop […]
Why do Python programmers hate PHP? I saw a colleague answer this question and thought I’d give a go: Are sure it’s just Python programmers? I think that relatively speaking Ruby developers and Java developers hate on PHP more (and Perl and Javascript developers less). From a software language design perspective, the PHP language is […]
Compiled from three separate discussions on IRC, twitter, and in person: “Whatcha do with your time these days? Learning Rails? ?” I did pick up Objective-C again after an aborted attempt at learning Swift. Mostly I’m trying to catch up on the javascript frameworks that have come out since I stopped coding. Right now it’s […]
AnsibleFest starts tomorrow so I thought I’d make a case why you should be using ansible. First, in order to prevent a ton of hate-comments which usually follow such pronouncements, I should define who you are. You are a developer focused on the web or some web-based tool. You are not already very proficient in […]
A friend writes: Hey Terry! I’ve been looking into attending a coding bootcamp. Do you have any opinions on them? Any local ones with particularly sterling reputations? Do they seem to churn out somewhat competent alumni? Thanks in advance for any insight you might be able to lend. Honestly, I don’t have a good opinion […]
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