3 using FrontPage?!
Frontpage Server Extensions != Frontpage
That said, I too am horrified. Maybe some of the newer ASP.net deployment stuff appears to be plain vanilla FPSE from the outside.
Top Technologies Used By YC Companies
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#62BOGUS!!!
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#63What baffles me is how this site users themselves seem to dislike PHP a lot, yet it's the most used language of these companies... So why the hate?
> * PHP usage is based on server side implementation so a server might support PHP it doesn't necessarily mean the site is written in PHP
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#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm more amazed by the fact that PHP tops there. I expected something like Python or Ruby there.
And if that's true, why aren't there more php articles and comments on HN? Are php developers that uninterested and apathetic about their own language?
The PHP community isn't terribly vocal. Probably because it's been around for ages and the dos and don't are very well understood by people who care to know.
I personally don't read many PHP related articles because, well, there isn't much new to learn. It's an old/stable language with well understood constructs.
Part of the problem is that the Rails community being as vocal as they are make it seem like everyone is using rails. In this case perception is not reality.
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#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
And if that's true, why aren't there more php articles and comments on HN? Are php developers that uninterested and apathetic about their own language?
The PHP community isn't terribly vocal. Probably because it's been around for ages and the dos and don't are very well understood by people who care to know. I personally don't read many PHP related articles because, well, there isn't much new to learn. It's an old/stable language with well understood constructs. Part of the problem is that the Rails community being as vocal as they are make it seem like everyone is…
You do have a point. Pretty same is the case with perl I think. Libararies are already there for ages and matured.
I'm not into web development stuff, but I thought currently big projects prefer not to use PHP. People say PHP helps them to find cheap programmers, but I dont think good PHP guys can be hired at low rate anyway.
Re: Top Technologies Used By YC Companies
#66Obviously this analysis is meaningless if the company isn't building an internet-facing web application. And even if they are it isn't that interesting, as it doesn't capture anything about the back-end. Stick a nginx caching reverse proxy and change a few HTTP headers and you've got something that looks completely different as well.
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#67What baffles me is how this site users themselves seem to dislike PHP a lot, yet it's the most used language of these companies... So why the hate?
First of all, as mentioned below if the server advertises PHP support, it's considered that the page is made with PHP (so a standard Apache install that comes with mod_php will make it think you're using PHP).
And second, I put my company's (admittedly not YC, but hey) homepage there just to try and since we're using a hosted Wordpress for the landing page so that business people can change the copy easier, it thought we're using PHP when in reality the app doesn't have a single line in it.
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#68The pie chart indicates that only 15% of companies use CSS? That's clearly the wrong way to display this data. Very few of the technologies covered are mutually exclusive.
Also, noone uses Java and only one company uses Perl. Interesting or misleading? You be the judge.
Am I the only one that is missing node.js?
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#69Its interesting to note that nginx is overtaking apache.
Some data is highly misinterpreted. (mod_ssl as Operating system, Dreamweaver as framework etc).
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm more amazed by the fact that PHP tops there. I expected something like Python or Ruby there.
And if that's true, why aren't there more php articles and comments on HN? Are php developers that uninterested and apathetic about their own language?
I've been trying! Where's all my php brothers and sisters?!