University PHP Survey

[University Student]

Hi,

As part of a small research paper I am writing for a Web Technologies
module making up part of my university degree, I am conducting a brief
survey to gauge what active users of PHP think of the programming
technology.

The aim of the paper is to compare PHP with Ruby on Rails, and there
is therefore a similar survey that will be completed by Ruby on Rails
users. Any results collected will be extremely useful for my paper
and will hopefully allow me to compare user experiences of the two
technologies.

If you are willing to complete the survey, please do so by going to
this URL: http://insoul.net/phpsurvey.php

Thank you for your time, and any submission you may make.

[Tim Van Wassenhove]

Re: University PHP Survey

University Student schreef:

Hi,
>
As part of a small research paper I am writing for a Web Technologies
module making up part of my university degree, I am conducting a brief
survey to gauge what active users of PHP think of the programming
technology.
>
The aim of the paper is to compare PHP with Ruby on Rails, and there
is therefore a similar survey that will be completed by Ruby on Rails
users. Any results collected will be extremely useful for my paper
and will hopefully allow me to compare user experiences of the two
technologies.

Comparing apples (a language) with apples (a language) and oranges (a
framework) usually leads to silly papers...


--
Tim Van Wassenhove <url:http://www.timvw.be/>

[Jerry Stuckle]

Re: University PHP Survey

University Student wrote:

Hi,
>
As part of a small research paper I am writing for a Web Technologies
module making up part of my university degree, I am conducting a brief
survey to gauge what active users of PHP think of the programming
technology.
>
The aim of the paper is to compare PHP with Ruby on Rails, and there
is therefore a similar survey that will be completed by Ruby on Rails
users. Any results collected will be extremely useful for my paper
and will hopefully allow me to compare user experiences of the two
technologies.
>
If you are willing to complete the survey, please do so by going to
this URL: http://insoul.net/phpsurvey.php
>
Thank you for your time, and any submission you may make.
>

I would think if this were a research paper you would want a more
scientifically selected group of respondents. Anything you get by
posting like this in usenet groups is not going to be scientifically
accurate, nor is it going to be repeatable. And thereby it will be useless.

And if I were your professor and found you acquired your statistics this
way I wouldn't even bother to read any further in your paper, because
any results gathered this way are meaningless and therefore not worth my
time.

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[Tex Ranger]

Re: University PHP Survey

Screw the 2 replies above. They dont' know jack. If you can't make a
contribution that is concise and has a point to the message, then shut
up and move on.

[Jerry Stuckle]

Re: University PHP Survey

Tex Ranger wrote:

Screw the 2 replies above. They dont' know jack. If you can't make a
contribution that is concise and has a point to the message, then shut
up and move on.
>
>

And you do? ROFLMAO!

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[University Student]

Re: University PHP Survey

On Apr 2, 3:48 am, Jerry Stuckle <jstuck...@attg lobal.netwrote:

>
I would think if this were a research paper you would want a more
scientifically selected group of respondents. Anything you get by
posting like this in usenet groups is not going to be scientifically
accurate, nor is it going to be repeatable. And thereby it will be useless.
>
And if I were your professor and found you acquired your statistics this
way I wouldn't even bother to read any further in your paper, because
any results gathered this way are meaningless and therefore not worth my
time.

Thanks for the advice. I understand what you are saying, but this
isn't a paper that is intended to be scientifically accurate with no
flaws etc. The results, obviously, aren't going to be submitted to a
journal or publication; it is a smallish module paper that is aimed
really at getting us to look at some aspect of web technology.

My professor already knows how I aim to go about getting the results,
which to me clearly indicates he knows and doesn't intend this to be
some kind of repeatable, scientific experiment to gather indisputable
results to show to the world!

I will certainly take on board what you've said though, and what the
other poster pointed out about comparing language and framework. I
have tried to stay away from calling them both languages (obviously
not successfully), instead comparing them as approaches to a possible
solution. I'll be sure to mention both these flaws in my report - it
should give me something else to write about.

Thanks.

[Jerry Stuckle]

Re: University PHP Survey

University Student wrote:

On Apr 2, 3:48 am, Jerry Stuckle <jstuck...@attg lobal.netwrote:

>I would think if this were a research paper you would want a more
>scientifical ly selected group of respondents. Anything you get by
>posting like this in usenet groups is not going to be scientifically
>accurate, nor is it going to be repeatable. And thereby it will be useless.
>>
>And if I were your professor and found you acquired your statistics this
>way I wouldn't even bother to read any further in your paper, because
>any results gathered this way are meaningless and therefore not worth my
>time.

>
Thanks for the advice. I understand what you are saying, but this
isn't a paper that is intended to be scientifically accurate with no
flaws etc. The results, obviously, aren't going to be submitted to a
journal or publication; it is a smallish module paper that is aimed
really at getting us to look at some aspect of web technology.
>
My professor already knows how I aim to go about getting the results,
which to me clearly indicates he knows and doesn't intend this to be
some kind of repeatable, scientific experiment to gather indisputable
results to show to the world!
>
I will certainly take on board what you've said though, and what the
other poster pointed out about comparing language and framework. I
have tried to stay away from calling them both languages (obviously
not successfully), instead comparing them as approaches to a possible
solution. I'll be sure to mention both these flaws in my report - it
should give me something else to write about.
>
Thanks.
>

OK, that makes a lot of difference then. My comment was based on the
fact normally Universities want a somewhat more scientific approach to
such a survey. Even if it's not going to be submitted to a journal for
publication, the learning experience of validating the group to be
polled is important.

However, since this does not seem to be the case, I'll be glad to add my
input to your survey.

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[Schraalhans Keukenmeester]

Re: University PHP Survey

Tex Ranger wrote:

Screw the 2 replies above. They dont' know jack. If you can't make a
contribution that is concise and has a point to the message, then shut
up and move on.
>
>

Q.E.D.