Simon Willison’s Weblog

7 reasons I switched back to PHP after 2 years on Rails. After two years working on a Rails rewrite of CD Baby, Derek Sivers scrapped it and instead rewrote the PHP version using Rails-inspired design principles. Derek would still use Rails for a greenfield project though.

# 8:49 am / cdbaby, derek-sivers, php, rails, rewrites

Team Fortress 2. I gave this a go today for old time’s sake. Nine years in development and all they could come up with was TFC without the grenades?

# 10:33 pm / games, onlinegaming, teamfortress2, teamfortressclassic, tf2, tfc, valve