Linked by Will Senn on Thu 22nd Apr 2004 06:30 UTC
General Development This article is intended to give you a practical recipe for creating a simple Web Control and extending Visual Studio with support for the control. The control itself is a basic Country Code drop down list such as you would find on many profile entry pages.
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RE: PHP????
by Keith on Thu 22nd Apr 2004 18:55 UTC

You will not find enterprise web development jobs using PHP or CGI because of poor scalability both in terms of development and in terms of handling requests. See http://www.onjava.com/pub/a/onjava/2003/06/04/nukes.html for a case study.

Don't base the speed of PHP on a single, overly complex, completely bloated, slow, etc.... CMS like postnuke. I have to deal with slow Java based web apps all the time, does that mean Java is slow? No, it means the programmers behind the programs didn't do a very good job. I have seen ASP.Net apps ported to PHP that run 4-5 times faster. So not only do you gain speed, but you can also loose the server farm and the load balancers it took to run the ASP app. Again, this might just have been a poorly written ASP app. Also, I wonder if Yahoo using PHP would count as an "enterprise web development job". I never used ASP.Net but I used ASP all the time before I moved to a Unix/NetWare shop. The beauty of PHP is its simplicity. Use it for fast and easy procedural apps, or create a nice framework to work off of, you can do both, with the same language. You can't take the complexity out of ASP or Java.

Keith