I converted about two dozens Ruby and Python apps to PHP in the last 7-8 years.

This single sentence horrified me more than the whole terrorist attacks over the last 26 years (before that, there was no PHP).

Come on guys, let's keep the discussion polite and constructive :)

It seems universities administrators in East Coast is more open to the idea of online education.

This whole online education trend was started by Stanford 9 months ago. Then, the professors who started two of the first three online classes created 2 separate startups (coursera and udacity). MITx was 6 months late to the game.

Open Source != Free. You can have open source code but need to pay for license to use it.

Suggested using EE before for a few clients. They turned down because of the license and hassle to renew it.

EE simplified their license with version 2, and there is no ongoing/renewal license fee: http://expressionengine.com/sales_faq/article/do_i_have_to_b...

This was for 2.0. Back then it was 1.6. No longer look at EE these days, just make use of FuelPHP.

I no longer accept and build projects using WordPress. These days, I stick with FuelPHP. Good authentication and blog package to start with.

Work In Progress. http://faces.my/. Going full speed next year.

> Yaf require PHP version greater than 5.2.1, and could not run with early version of PHP.

No thanks. Closure? Namespace?

I'm not sure what you're getting at. Is there reason to believe that this will not work with PHP >= 5.3?

It will be is not structured using Namespaces, which can be annoying if you are using them on a day to day basis and want to integrate something like Yaf that doesn't use them.

You could always write your own namespaced shim classes if it matters that much to you.

closures and anonymous functions, to my mind, were a jailbreak for PHP.

well done, cheng soon. pass me the hard copy when we meet again :)