Tag: Python
Thoughts on the Feasibility of Batch Jobs in PHP
December 30, 2010
I accept that every programming language is an exercise in trade-offs. In order to do certain things well, they inherently have to do some things poorly. The modestly low defaults for memory size and execution time limits in PHP are there for good reason. The language isn’t great at long executing memory intensive jobs. Offloading [...]
Python for IO
November 14, 2010
A while back I started to get serious about Python. Four frustrating days into hacking WordPress’s less than stellar PHP code for work, I took some time out and found solace in Python’s clean syntax. I began to evaluate Python and seriously considered jumping ship to Python for the majority of my web development. Ultimately [...]