Dont depend on the grant money to run your business, treat it like icing on the cake. the money is more of a reimbursement than upfront cash. Grow from sales.
FYI: Its a Drupal7 site hosted on new jersey linode so they can't really be php haters - maybe self-haterz. Using TypeKit. Sophisticated enough to include a custom server header and a California specific Privacy Policy but a UK one (although it could be copied). Video by Wistia.
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> PHP isn’t a great language, but it is a good language.
So what is a great language? If it runs the largest active user app on the planet (FB), the most widely used CMSes (WP,Drupal,EE), message boards, MVPs, etc. Why continue the hate, then end the article on how you've chosen it as the greatest option to run some of your systems.
Argument from popularity doesn't denote quality. I'd hardly say he's "continuing the hate", quite the contrary: him calling PHP a good language is likely at odds with most of HN.
Quite honestly, there's only a couple or so languages that I would truly describe as "great".
Sure, FB, wikipedia, phpbb, wordpress. But when were those started? If you look at what's created today in startups and open source, PHP isn't a very popular language IMO
Lots of startups use PHP (with frameworks like Laravel4, CodeIgniter, Symfony) for their API and sexy new front end JS frameworks that they promote. On our current codebase, started in 2013, we decided to use PHP and have Ruby, JS, Python apps, where appropriate, that run on top.
Twitter, famously known as a Rails, now Scala, shop, has used php throughout its life (I know several php coders that have worked there). Their developer/documentation area is Drupal (acquia).
But moreover, as web architectures have become more distributed and JSON heavy, PHP has held onto its language position, especially with International devs.
As a CTO, not a employee, its also important to consider the salaries, roles of the people you need to build the platform.
I'm the founder of an edTech where we are using software to _IMPROVE_ teacher training. Teachers, especially new teachers, need a lot of support, not just from in school peers, but outside of school. They also need constructive feedback on their practice (from peer teachers, parents, and students). Current training is one size fits all and not personalized. Current evaluation only focuses on test scores.
Its important to note that some will NOT want to attend a classified briefing because they will then be bound NOT to discuss what they have heard in that classified meeting.
Great work LocalWiki. This is a good way to build hyperlocal mobile/sms apps. I find myself usually scraping data off wikis, massaging it a bit, then building my own api endpoint to feed the mobile app.
Next step is to build a mobile app that feeds data back in (POST/PUT). Like YokoZar points out, it's a Sales task, not necessarily a difficult technical one.
The current version of the app was built with Titanium, but I'm not sure that I can recommend it for nontrivial apps. The API still has plenty of gaps and the platform isn't as 'cross-platform' as we had hoped (there are plenty of controls and properties that are platform-specific.)
