Re: first php 5 class

On Jan 30, 2008 12:40 PM, Nathan Nobbe <quickshiftin@gmail.com> wrote: > just pointing out that the rails guys dont have much wiggle room. > surely, youre familiar w/ this post: > > http://www.oreillynet.com/ruby/blog/2007/09/7_reasons_i_switched_back_to_p_1.html One article from one developer means what exaclty? Perhaps he wasn't writing enough lines of code per day to be stay happy using Rails? > > Propel still uses XML last I messed with it. Yaml is a lot better for > > similar tasks. The syntax is a lot smaller which makes it a lot > > faster than XML. > well lets see, it only reads the xml when the code is generated, which is not > that often so any slowness of xml is not valid. and last time i generated code > in my project it took like under 5 seconds; boy that xml sure was painful =/ Well if all you do is toy projects then XML is fine. <user id="babooey" on="cpu1"> <firstname>Bob</firstname> <lastname>Abooey</lastname> <department>adv</department> <cell>555-1212</cell> <address password="xxxx">ahunter@example1.com</address> <address password="xxxx">babooey@example2.com</address> </user> versus the Yaml equivalent: babooey: computer: cpu1 firstname: Bob lastname: Abooey cell: 555-1212 addresses: - address: babooey@example1.com password: xxxx - address: babooey@example2.com password: xxxx > Perfect example of an advance in web technology. > perfect example of something that doesnt make much difference. The time saved writing Yaml instead of XML makes a huge difference to me. Similar savings are to be had when comparing PHP to most anything except Java. -- Greg Donald http://destiney.com/