Comments on: Building Sample Apps in Ruby, NodeJS and PHP http://lostechies.com/derickbailey/2013/02/12/building-sample-apps-in-ruby-nodejs-and-php/ Better Than Yesterday Fri, 24 May 2013 06:39:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Davy http://lostechies.com/derickbailey/2013/02/12/building-sample-apps-in-ruby-nodejs-and-php/#comment-3245 Davy Fri, 24 May 2013 06:39:00 +0000 http://lostechies.com/derickbailey/?p=1053#comment-3245 A bit opinionated. If you pick a platform based on how long it takes you to get a new stub project up and running on your local machine, it's not a good reason, because the setup is a one time task. If you have many small projects with different setups, you can consider using framework agnostic deploy/stub/skeleton software like opscodes chef, or brunch for a lighter version to manage your basic setup. You only have to do it once, and you will have your framework (rails, php, sinatra, python, node, whatever) the way you like it. The choice of language is a question of language features, maturity and support. In your case it sounds more like its a question of what you have on your mind the moment you turn on the computer... Your arguments that it takes time to get a sinatra setup up and running is utterly nonsense. What you really mean is that it takes a while to set it up the way *you* like it to run (with haml, etc.). Does php support haml in the base installation? No. If you want a fast setup webserver, most frameworks today have a commandline one-liner: rails, python, php. I prefer 37signals pow myself, because then you don't have to use the one-liner even. Happy coding, Davy A bit opinionated. If you pick a platform based on how long it takes you to get a new stub project up and running on your local machine, it’s not a good reason, because the setup is a one time task.

If you have many small projects with different setups, you can consider using framework agnostic deploy/stub/skeleton software like opscodes chef, or brunch for a lighter version to manage your basic setup. You only have to do it once, and you will have your framework (rails, php, sinatra, python, node, whatever) the way you like it.

The choice of language is a question of language features, maturity and support. In your case it sounds more like its a question of what you have on your mind the moment you turn on the computer…

Your arguments that it takes time to get a sinatra setup up and running is utterly nonsense. What you really mean is that it takes a while to set it up the way *you* like it to run (with haml, etc.). Does php support haml in the base installation? No.

If you want a fast setup webserver, most frameworks today have a commandline one-liner: rails, python, php. I prefer 37signals pow myself, because then you don’t have to use the one-liner even.

Happy coding,
Davy

]]> By: Dmitri Zaitsev http://lostechies.com/derickbailey/2013/02/12/building-sample-apps-in-ruby-nodejs-and-php/#comment-3240 Dmitri Zaitsev Mon, 20 May 2013 17:13:00 +0000 http://lostechies.com/derickbailey/?p=1053#comment-3240 Thank you, that explains it! Thank you, that explains it!

]]> By: Derick Bailey http://lostechies.com/derickbailey/2013/02/12/building-sample-apps-in-ruby-nodejs-and-php/#comment-3239 Derick Bailey Mon, 20 May 2013 11:45:00 +0000 http://lostechies.com/derickbailey/?p=1053#comment-3239 the -S option and built in web server were introduced with PHP 5.4. You'll need to install that version (or higher, if one is released since) to get this to work the -S option and built in web server were introduced with PHP 5.4. You’ll need to install that version (or higher, if one is released since) to get this to work

]]> By: Dmitri Zaitsev http://lostechies.com/derickbailey/2013/02/12/building-sample-apps-in-ruby-nodejs-and-php/#comment-3238 Dmitri Zaitsev Mon, 20 May 2013 03:36:00 +0000 http://lostechies.com/derickbailey/?p=1053#comment-3238 Somehow php -S localhost:5000 doesn't seem to work for me. The options -S does not seem to exist and I am sent to the help page of php. Am I missing something? I have Mac OS 10.8.3 and standard php: PHP 5.3.15 with Suhosin-Patch (cli) (built: Aug 28 2012 18:19:13) Copyright (c) 1997-2012 The PHP Group Zend Engine v2.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2012 Zend Technologies Somehow php -S localhost:5000 doesn’t seem to work for me.
The options -S does not seem to exist and I am sent to the help page of php.
Am I missing something?

I have Mac OS 10.8.3 and standard php:

PHP 5.3.15 with Suhosin-Patch (cli) (built: Aug 28 2012 18:19:13)

Copyright (c) 1997-2012 The PHP Group

Zend Engine v2.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2012 Zend Technologies

]]> By: Nico Burns http://lostechies.com/derickbailey/2013/02/12/building-sample-apps-in-ruby-nodejs-and-php/#comment-3171 Nico Burns Tue, 02 Apr 2013 00:06:00 +0000 http://lostechies.com/derickbailey/?p=1053#comment-3171 I highly recommend the 'http-server' node module npm install -g http-server Then run with http-server It will only serve static content, but other than that it's great. My favourite feature is through it auto-increments the port, so it's really really easy to start multiple servers at once. I highly recommend the ‘http-server’ node module

npm install -g http-server

Then run with

http-server

It will only serve static content, but other than that it’s great. My favourite feature is through it auto-increments the port, so it’s really really easy to start multiple servers at once.

]]> By: Lucas Mendelowski http://lostechies.com/derickbailey/2013/02/12/building-sample-apps-in-ruby-nodejs-and-php/#comment-3145 Lucas Mendelowski Fri, 22 Mar 2013 16:30:00 +0000 http://lostechies.com/derickbailey/?p=1053#comment-3145 Or you can just type: python -m SimpleHTTPServer :) Or you can just type: python -m SimpleHTTPServer :)

]]> By: Rakesh Mehta http://lostechies.com/derickbailey/2013/02/12/building-sample-apps-in-ruby-nodejs-and-php/#comment-3113 Rakesh Mehta Fri, 15 Mar 2013 07:50:00 +0000 http://lostechies.com/derickbailey/?p=1053#comment-3113 Is there any language int this world that does not have any glitch or vulnerability issue? I don't believe so. Some languages has fewer issues that other. For someone PHP seems to be promising one, for other it's a crap. These are all personal tastes. The good thing with PHP is that it's light weight and not that hard to configure (even manually) and you get lots of frameworks and open source projects to start working on. The documentation on php.net is another +, very well indexed in google and thus quickly searchable. I personally believe that to be a good developer, one should have strong analytical and problem solving skill. Good understand of project flow and end users requirement. Without these understanding none of the languages is useful to you. Basically you should know, what you are going to do and then decide the most beneficial (commercially and technically) way to do that. I never believe that for a good programmer programming language is never a barrier. And yes, you must consider the new releases of PHP <a href="http://www.am-horizon.com/blog/2012/04/whats-new-in-php-5-4/" rel="nofollow">www.am-horizon.com/blog/2012/04/whats-new-in-php-5-4</a> Is there any language int this world that does not have any glitch or vulnerability issue? I don’t believe so. Some languages has fewer issues that other. For someone PHP seems to be promising one, for other it’s a crap. These are all personal tastes. The good thing with PHP is that it’s light weight and not that hard to configure (even manually) and you get lots of frameworks and open source projects to start working on. The documentation on php.net is another +, very well indexed in google and thus quickly searchable. I personally believe that to be a good developer, one should have strong analytical and problem solving skill. Good understand of project flow and end users requirement. Without these understanding none of the languages is useful to you. Basically you should know, what you are going to do and then decide the most beneficial (commercially and technically) way to do that. I never believe that for a good programmer programming language is never a barrier. And yes, you must consider the new releases of PHP http://www.am-horizon.com/blog/2012/04/whats-new-in-php-5-4

]]> By: crojas http://lostechies.com/derickbailey/2013/02/12/building-sample-apps-in-ruby-nodejs-and-php/#comment-3083 crojas Tue, 26 Feb 2013 17:30:00 +0000 http://lostechies.com/derickbailey/?p=1053#comment-3083 I found an interesting site to build app in PHP, Ruby, Nodejs and other check this out: http://weflavors.com You can even choose the framework and ui framework I found an interesting site to build app in PHP, Ruby, Nodejs and other
check this out: http://weflavors.com

You can even choose the framework and ui framework

]]> By: crojas http://lostechies.com/derickbailey/2013/02/12/building-sample-apps-in-ruby-nodejs-and-php/#comment-3082 crojas Tue, 26 Feb 2013 17:23:00 +0000 http://lostechies.com/derickbailey/?p=1053#comment-3082 I found an interesting site to build app in PHP, Ruby, Nodejs and other check this out: http://weflavors.com You can even choose the framework and ui framework I found an interesting site to build app in PHP, Ruby, Nodejs and other
check this out: http://weflavors.com

You can even choose the framework and ui framework

]]> By: rssvihla http://lostechies.com/derickbailey/2013/02/12/building-sample-apps-in-ruby-nodejs-and-php/#comment-3061 rssvihla Mon, 18 Feb 2013 15:18:00 +0000 http://lostechies.com/derickbailey/?p=1053#comment-3061 I can't speak for the OP but the runtime has it's issues. You can definitely make good products with it, but the edge cases drive you batty. http://me.veekun.com/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/ I can’t speak for the OP but the runtime has it’s issues. You can definitely make good products with it, but the edge cases drive you batty. http://me.veekun.com/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/

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