May 2010
A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages
by nhoizey & 1 other"1995 - At a neighborhood Italian restaurant Rasmus Lerdorf realizes that his plate of spaghetti is an excellent model for understanding both the World Wide Web and that web applications should mimic their medium. On the back of his napkin he designs Programmable Hyperlinked Pasta (PHP). PHP documentation remains on that napkin to this day."
April 2010
Business Process Modeling Language
by nhoizey"BPML was designed as a formally complete language, able to model any process, and, via a BPMS, deployed as an executable software process without generation of any software code. This is not possible with BPEL, since BPEL is not a complete process language."
January 2010
October 2009
Play! 1.0 final is out
by nhoizeyDévelopper en Java comme les fans de Java reprochaient aux développeurs PHP de le faire ("fix it and hit reload", "share nothing", etc.) c'est possible ! Troll ?
June 2008
Gravatar runs on PHP, previously on Rails
by nhoizeyPrivilégier les compétences internes, plus que la hype : "Our decision on this matter had nothing to do with Ruby, or Rails — in fact we have a great respect for both! The reason [...] we switched is that PHP is our core competency at Automattic."
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