Tech Stuff - Languages

We have historically used PHP for web work, avoided PERL like the plague, did some heavy experimentation with Python, used javascript because we had no choice, C for serious programming and messed around with XHTML/HTML/CSS when we weren't doing real work.

We now use ruby for all new work because:

Single language for scripting, application and web development
Allow us to develop systems very quickly using (reusable) objects
Allows us to prove (test) functionality exhaustively
Provides tools to let us analyse application performance in some detail
Allows selective 'hot-spot' re-implementation into another (C) language for essential performance improvements

PHP stuff	Plenty of resources out there for PHP folks - but these are our notes on PHP Mail functions with SPAM injection checks for 'mail us' and 'mail this page' stuff, a PHP web based MySQL database and table viewer, PHP and SSIs, and a web kit that we use to maintain our web site and was an exercise in class programming with PHP.
Rails Stuff	Some resources on using Ruby-on-Rails - we got into it only because we needed to because we wanted typo in keeping with our Ruby first preferences for new implementations. The first part of the information is just about us catching up with the rest of the world. If RoR is anywhere near as good as billed then we have a couple of resource hungry projects that we could not afford the time to complete that may become viable. That's a may just now - jury is still out.
Ruby Language Stuff	Some resources on Ruby - our language of choice for web development (mod_ruby and Rails), scripting and application. Though each step seems harder than it should right now. Updated with Ruby on Rails documentation and our implementation of TYPO (the Ruby on Rails based blogging software).

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