[BangPypers] [OT] language fanaticism

[Kenneth Gonsalves]

On Wed, 2011-07-13 at 15:51 +0530, satyaakam goswami wrote:
> > django - I like to sleep at night. I use apps written in all sorts
> of
> > languages, but never have and never will use a php app - unless it
> is
> > set up and supported by someone else and is running on a system for
> > which I am in no way responsible.
> >
> 
> why ?  any personal bad experience or some technical reasons? 

many bitter experiences - security is a nightmare for php apps. Take a
look at the number of security updates wordpress has per *month* - more
than django has had in 6 *years*.

http://wordpress-security.net/wordpress-software-security-updates/
<<<--- do you want to live on the edge like this? 

Most LUG sites run php, maintained by 'experts' - they are regularly
spammed or cracked even when the most draconian lockdown/captchas are
implemented. Volunteers just do not have the time to spend half their
nights applying security patches. 
<quote>
Important note about updating Themes:
If you have made **any** changes to your theme (tweaking things in
style.css or changes to the template files), the changes will be
overwritten when the theme is updated. Be ready to re-do the changes
after updating.
<unquote>

what fun!
-- 
regards
Kenneth Gonsalves
http://lawgon.livejournal.com/