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25 Years of PHP - Talk/Video by Rasmus Lerdorf

Didn't see this video until just now, but it's really good if you're interested in the history of PHP. Talk given by Rasmus himself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCZ5TJCBWMg

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Good video, Ive seen others by him. He mentioned coldfusion, sounds like he didn't like it. I had used for a while (just tried) and I didn't like it neither.

Early java (jsp) and early php was similar in many ways.

But I am glad he came up with php, it has come a very long way as far as getting better over the years.

Last video I view was: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DuB6UjEsY_Y

Basically talking about frameworks.

Also this one from Jeffrey Way, the beginning is very funny: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDotS5BDqRM

where he is talking about Laracast. This video might hypnotize you.

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