Zend_Service_SlideShare approved

nospam@example.com (John Coggeshall) — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 19:39:12 -0800

Today I received an e-mail informing me that my proposal for the Zend_Service_SlideShare component was accepted into the Zend Framework incubator. Woo hoo!

What's the component? If you haven't seen it before, Slideshare.net is an excellent site for hosting various Powerpoint slide shows for public consumption (think YouTube for slide shows). I wrote the component during the my site redesign to host my various slide shows which can be found in the resources section.

While it is not quite complete (everything but uploading slide shows is there), you can check out the source code by pointing your SVN to the Zend Framework Repository. Please use the Zend Framework bug tracking system if you find bugs.

Alan has smoked too much PHP

nospam@example.com (John Coggeshall) — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 16:16:55 -0800

Alan, I think you were smoking way too much PHP when you wrote this post.. This in particular really surprised me to hear you say:

"...if there was an apache module that did mysql stored procedure calls based on the request URL, and returned JSON, I suspect PHP would be practically obsolite....."

While I do understand the concept your explaining, I simply can't see how the model is practical at all for two big reasons:

Reason 1: Businesses will never build applications designed to make money when the entire application is transmitted open-source to any client which requests it.

Reason 2: Without a server-side language such as PHP, there is not a viable security model. Javascript data validation is a half-measure at best, and do you honestly believe that it makes sense to use stored procedures written in SQL to scrub data?

While I think Alan really did go a bit off the deep end, he has touched on a pretty interesting point though. While I can't see the server-side ever going away I do think that in the near future the development model will change from what it is today to a completely event-based model based on a json-powered message bus between the client and server. IBM's QEDWiki uses Zend Framework to create such a bus and I have to say it's a very impressive architecture. The idea that PHP programming will for a lot of people resemble Visual Basic is really a lot closer then a lot of people might think.

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Zend_Service_SlideShare approved

Alan has smoked too much PHP