Emil Ong is the Chief Evangelist and a lead developer for Caucho Technology, the developers of the Quercus PHP to Java compiler. The idea, I guess, is to write in PHP, deploy in Java, which some people say is better supported by the “enterprise.”
Ong claims 26% performance improvement over Apache + mod_php + APC. [...]

Posted August 16, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: Caucho, Emil Ong, enterprise, java, performance, Quercus, WordCamp, wordpress. Be the first one.

David Cloutman pointed to Craiglist’s job ads as an indicator of programming language popularity. Here’s the hit counts for “web design jobs” and “internet engineering jobs” in the Bay Area:

 
PHP
Java
Ruby
Python
PERL

internet engineering jobs
167
246
85
98
109

web design jobs
110
71
22
19
31

Cloutman has a few ideas for what the numbers mean, but I’m just entertained by the data. (Note: he corrected his original [...]

Posted July 15, 2008 by Casey Bisson
Categories: Technology. Tags: java, languages, perl, php, popularity, programming, python, ruby. Be the first one.