Adventures As Me

Apparently I missed this discussion on Sitepoint Forums. The subject: Java API as base for PHP library? Selkirk provides quite the convincing argument why porting Frameworks and API’s from one language to another does not necessarily provide the features/advantages one expects.

A new site surfaced recently: Cookie Nest. Like many other LP sites, it aims to be the one place you go for Java goodness. Check out their manual, it seems the best content at the moment.

Jon Lim links to a posting on Site Point Forums that exposes the difference between web application development with PHP and Java. Java uses a centralized approach for much of the application state, whereas PHP doesn’t. The crux of the difference is this:

In J2EE, the java virtual machine does not get re-loaded in between requests. [...]

Language wars, that which build legends. Here we have one man’s take on a language comparison (surely the basis for another flame fest). His approach however I find quite disarming compared to other such comparisons I’ve encountered in the past. For example, his assertion that the comparison is not to claim that Python is the [...]

Though this is slanted toward Java developers, certainly the pratical counsel offered by Mr. Eckel in his book Thinking In Java 2nd Edition, what you find in that appendix is priceless. Read it. Practice it.