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finally! someone needed to write this, if only to have something to point junior devs to. :)

This idiot just proves most of this: http://two-pi-r.livejournal.com/622760.html If you just want to stick up for your "favorite" PHP framework simply because it's the only f**king…

We needed load balancers and at the time, the choices were ZXTM, ServerIron (which I'd used subsequently, and am very grateful we didn't pick) or F5. We'd had a truly terrible expe…

Hah, I didn't know that about the performance publishing. We used nginx for static content and as an fcgi front-end.

My bullshit detector is going off so loudly, I think I best go lie down. At my last company, we paid for a Zeus ZXTM license (which was an excellent product and very expensive for …

Seconded. Ruby has tons of syntax and is a much more complicated language to learn than Javascript. Also Rails is non-trivial these days. I picked up rails back in pre-1.0, and fol…

Ha! Fair point. I thought it was an interesting trial in that all updates to our user data wound up being published into MongoDB. All the other tools we'd tried for this purpose, C…