PHP programming 101

Today I bought my first PHP book! Yup I am now going to learn PHP and see what the other side is up to. I’ve been doing .net development for so long that I’ve become bored to death with it. So I’ve taken upon myself to learn php. Part of the motivation is to learn more on how to modify more of the Word Press blogging software I am using these days. It’s very extenisble, but its written all in PHP.

It looks very much like all the other languages so its not going to be that hard to understand. This is one of the advantages of current programming languages. If they all follow the C syntax, its pretty easy to jump right in and figure out. However every language have their slight differences (or they would all just be C then!).

I plan on doing doing some write ups on the blog about my experience with PHP.

The one thing that has really started to bother me about the .net framework is that I am truly stuck to only developing on the Windows Platform. I know why the do it but one should not be tied to a specific OS. I guess using a Mac is really starting to change the way I am looking at things. I don’t expect we should work for free. Heck I would not have a problem paying for the interperter for the OS. (Which should be included in the cost of the OS when you buy it, or as an addon for under $200) I say under $200 because your selling to the masses. If 100,000 servers have it installed for $100 to $200 a pop, I think you would more than cover your development costs. But thats another post for another time!