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PHP at Yahoo

29th October 2002

Making the Case for PHP at Yahoo! (via Jeremy Zawodny) looks like it was a great presentation. The slides include the reasons PHP was chosen over ASP, ColdFusion, JSP and Perl and has some interesting details on the history of Yahoo’s server side technologies. Jeremy has extensive coverage of PHPcon so be sure to flick through some of his recent entries while you are there.

Posted 29th October 2002 at 1:30 am · Follow me on Mastodon, Bluesky, Twitter or subscribe to my newsletter

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