Imagini in baza de date

Dezbaterea privind păstrarea fişierelor (audio/video/imagini) in baza de date contra sistem de fişiere continuă cu noi argumente.

Într-un articol publicat pe MySQL-dump (găsit via PlanetPHP) se pare ca nu sunt singurul căruia îi place idea de a servi conţinutul static cu serverul web lightTPD.

La o concluzie finală pro sau contra nu se va ajunge prea curând dar se pare ca discuţiile se termină tot timpul cu:

“Don’t.”

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PHP si “concurenta”

PHP Architect a lansat un nou podcast :Interview with Brian Goldfarb of Microsoft (desi interviul il include si pe Joe Stagner). Discutia se refera la integrarea PHP cu tehnologiile .NET.

Un alt punct de vedere (“Java Is Under No Serious Threat From PHP, Ruby or C#”) aparut saptamana aceasta este cel a lui James Gosling -“father of Java”:

“PHP and Ruby are perfectly fine systems,but they are scripting languages and get their power through specialization: they just generate web pages. But none of them attempt any serious breadth in the application domain and they both have really serious scaling and performance problems.”

“PHP (for example) is able to make things simpler because it’s 100% aimed at web pages, Gosling explained. Whereas with Java, he said, “We have a balancing act: we need the simplicity but we also need power.”

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