Comments on: A Community of Diverse Backgrounds

By: PHPDeveloper.org

PHPDeveloper.org — Tue, 03 Oct 2006 12:39:08 +0000

Ben Ramsey’s Blog: A Community of Diverse Backgrounds

By: David Rasch

David Rasch — Mon, 02 Oct 2006 03:06:20 +0000

I’m also a classical Computer Scientist with two degrees, in fact. However, at this point, I do very little programming and spend most of my time finding people far smarter to program on my behalf. I get to dream up projects and architect solutions with the team—the best of both worlds. I started playing with PHP in 2001, late to the game it sounds, but I have had few happier days than when I started reading about PHP5 and the features it was bringing to the table.

By: Jad

Jad — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 21:47:03 +0000

I have Bachelor degree in Political science and law but I’ve been working as web developer for about 6 years now.
my story is little funny, I was so addict to the internet so in my journey I learned to run IRC servers, Eggdrop bots and write TCL scripts, later it become so boring to play with kiddies stuff and decided to learn something seriously and then I had nightmares to understand how to do stuff with Perl, it wasn’t easy at all, and all I learned is to install perl scripts without even being able to customize or make changes to it.
so later I found PHP3, start reading the manual page after page; it was pretty easy to learn the basic of PHP or actually the basic of programming

By: michael kimsal

michael kimsal — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 20:03:43 +0000

Enjoyed meeting with you and the others at phpappalachia – sorry I didn’t get a chance to throw in on this topic when it came up there, so I’ll add it here.

Started with PHP in 1996 (PHP/FI!), and worked in a combination of PHP/Perl/ASP until the end of 1999. Since 1999 probably 90% of my work has been in PHP, with bits of Java, Coldfusion and Perl for good measure.

Initially got in to PHP at the encouragement of an ISP support tech who said it was ‘better’ than perl. I think it was ‘better’ because it gave line numbers for the errors instead of just ‘CGI ERROR’ on the screen, which cut down on their support calls!

By: Eli

Eli — Sat, 30 Sep 2006 00:43:00 +0000

Actually in my case, I am a classically trained Computer Scientist. But back at the ‘right time’ when the Web was JUST starting … HTML was considered a ‘programming language’, and so only computer folks were using it.

So my first ‘real’ computer job was making HTML pages for the Computer Science department’s homepages. Once I graduated and left school, I got a job, again, working on the web. This time doing lots of Perl CGI scripts, and Java Applets …

Time went on and I stayed in the Web world, the languages used changing, and ending up with PHP.

By: enygma

enygma — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 12:43:36 +0000

So true – I mean, I was an art major in college and tried to make it as a painter when I first got out of school. PHP sucked me back in though Enjoyed it ever since.

By: Aaron Wormus

Aaron Wormus — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 06:05:14 +0000

That’s the beauty of PHP, the target audience isn’t CS majors. Rasmus said something to the effect of “Who better to write a data filing program than a file clerk, PHP allows them to do that”

By: John Herren

John Herren — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 00:11:34 +0000

Actually, I was working toward a degree in computer science. For some reason, getting out into the real world sounded more appealing, so I co-founded a web dev shop, and PHP quickly became my weapon of choice.

By: PHP Appalachia - A Community of Diverse Backgrounds

PHP Appalachia - A Community of Diverse Backgrounds — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 22:08:02 +0000

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