On 7 Apr 2004, Robert Treat wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-04-07 at 17:10, David Costa wrote:
> >
> > On Apr 7, 2004, at 6:37 PM, Robert Treat wrote:
> >
> > > Weberdev.com is having a PHP coding contest and is looking for any
> > > interested companies that would like to sponsor prizes. You can find
> > > more details at
> > > http://www.weberdev.com/Contests/CodeContest/index.html. This might be
> > > a good way for some of the PostgreSQL support companies to get thier
> > > name out to a new group of developers, or if you want to donate in the
> > > name of the PostgreSQL project then all the more good karma to you.
> >
> > Aheam, their site is entirely dedicated to PHP and MySQL as you can see
> > in the homepage ;)
> >
>
> It's not like there is a website out there dedicated to php and
> postgresql after all :-P
>
> But seriously, that might be a bit of a chicken and egg thing though...
> after all my$ql is far more popular among php developers than
> postgresql, so they are just catering to their customer base. A good
> example of this is in their submitted code examples section... they have
> had 174 my$ql submissions and only 13 for postgresql. That's pretty
> weighted against us, but to their credit they initiated contact with us
> about finding companies will to sponsor prizes, so I think they should
> be treated in good faith. Also don't forget that it wasn't all that long
> ago that we didn't have a presence on databasejournal.com either...
> you've got to start somewhere.
So far, the only PHP board that seems to have a fair number of Pgsql folks
on it is phpbuilder. I've been to codewalkers, as well as weberdev. At
least at Codewalkers they have a SQL/Database forum. At weberdev they
only have a MySQL forum. Not encouraging. I wonder if they'd start a
SQL or Database forum is asked?
It may well be that they are getting questions in the MySQL forum or
elsewhere more and more about other databases and that's one of the
reasons they're reaching out to us...