At 12:07 08.10.2002 -0700, Jon Scott Stevens wrote:

>I recently spent a couple weekend nights and built the StudioZ.tv website in
>PHP4 on OSX. It is a pretty cool webapp that has really transformed things
>for us and made my life MUCH easier (the office staff can fully manage the
>events that show up on the website via a browser). I incorporate several
>technologies into the site (including a cool XML-RPC interface that talks to
>presaleticketing.com to tell us how many tickets have been sold). I used PHP
>because it was quick and easy and I didn't have time to 'design' the
>application.
>
>The only thing that sucks is that the code is a complete hack that is going
>to be terrible to maintain over the long term and half the time, I can't
>figure out why something does or doesn't work.

It is surprising that a Java expert with monumental contributions to
this community would not use Java technology to create his website. Is
this a case of "do as I say, not as I do"?

Of course one is free to try new approaches but the anecdote is still quite
telling. Cool-looking site by the way.

>=)
>
>-jon
>
>--
>StudioZ.tv /\ Bar/Nightclub/Entertainment
>314 11th Street @ Folsom /\ San Francisco
>         http://studioz.tv/

--
Ceki

TCP implementations will follow a general principle of robustness: be
conservative in what you do, be liberal in what you accept from
others. -- Jon Postel, RFC 793



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