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hoopscityon Has adaptive design failed? Of course it bloody hasn’t.

couldn't agree more with what Elliot is saying in his blog post

there is a place for both. There are certain things that make sense for server side rendering. If I have a blog, why render it on client side, its evergreen content... makes sense for the server to deliver the static content. For web apps, there is a lot of value to client side rendering.

hoopscityon PHP: the quiet powerhouse

I think people are comparing apples to oranges. Ruby on Rails is as some have stated, a framework, much like Zend or cake or CodeIgniter.

I think the author is spot on in this post. PHP is not without its warts, but as a programming language for web development, it is scalabe, reliable and robust.

Can you perhaps do things faster or more elegantly in other languages? Sure, but writing good clean code is really in the hands of the developer. I can do everything in python because its written in python doesn't mean that that code is going to be designed well or scale well.