I am a newly graduated programmer. I have done many web pages and services with Php.
I took a project as a freelancer. My employer want the web site to be coded mainly with Php. He took another employee as a iphone developer.
iphone developer guy want to write web services with .NET while i have no idea about it. (ı have done some windows application with .Net)
And this iphone develpor guy also want to code the web site with .Net not PHP.
I dont know his arguments but my argument is, i dont know .net as well as i do PHP.
Tomorrow we 3 going to have a meeting.
I am really nervous about it.
iPhone guy can ask me why do you develop with Php, let us do it with .Net.
can you give me some supporting arguments on my side.
he thinks that developing web services with .net and developing the web site with php would be hard and inefficient. do you think this is true? or is he want to take the job fully?
So first of all, congratulations on graduation, but now your real schooling begins as a professional!
So first to clarify, a web-service is usually a page/url/etc. that provides data to a requester based upon some parameters that you pass to it. It will often return a formatted result in some mark-up language like XML, or XML based formats like SOAP or REST. An example of this would be Google Maps API web service, where you can dynamically embed a map into a web page based upon parameters that you pass to the Google web service.
With a web service that provides XML it doesn’t matter what language you use to interpret and process that XML response, as XML is pretty easy parse using standard issue .NET/PHP XML parsing functions/objects. Therefore I think the iPhone developer is getting his panties in a twist unnecessarily. If you know PHP, then you could build a web service that provides a XML feed in the necessary format.
I am biased because I like PHP over .NET, but still its only difficult if you don’t know what to do…???
Best of luck with your meeting! Stand strong and don’t let yourself be bullied.