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[Hans Zaunere]

That's a great story; another example of simple sometimes is better.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew Terenzio [mailto:matt at jobsforge.com]
> Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 9:13 PM
> To: NYPHP Talk
> Subject: [nycphp-talk] PHP popularity vs. strength
> 
> Quick story:
> 
> I work for a local newspaper website, but we are a big News
> Corporation. Lots of money and lots of Java technology.
> 
> We are about a month behind schedule for a launch of a hosted
> obituaries solution with an outside vendor.
> 
> The IT department was working on a feed script. I asked how it was
> going.
> 
> "We are really busy. we may have to hire someone from outside to write
> it. "
> I heard this as "it's tougher than I thought, I don't know regular
> expressions very well."
> I don't know this worker well, though I heard he is a Solaris snob. (I
> have nothing against Solaris, only his disregard for FreeBSD and Linux)
> 
> "Do you want to take a look at it?" they asked.
> "Okay, " I said, "what platform is it running on.?"
> "Unix or Mac OS X." (lots of Macs in the Printing business)
> 
> That was at ten a.m.
> By  the time I left, PHP had it working.
> I probably could have done it without preg_match , but I used it anyway
> as it  made it more flexible.
> 
> Now I probably saved the company a thousand dollars, the IT project
> manager a headache, and myself some drudgery, since we upload the obits
> manually every day till this gets launched.
> 
> But I won't even get a free lunch.
> 
> It's running on an OS X server, so PHP was installed already.
> I saw the IT director.
> "hey, did you hear about that script I wrote for you guys? blah blah"
> "really, what did you write it in?"
> "PHP."
> "What's that?"
> 
> "OOooh that hurts."
> 
> 
> 
> 
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