One IT guy for an organization of 30 is totally reasonable. Unless their company's focus is in something IT-related (web services, hosting, etc.), one person should definitely be able to manage the IT of a very small company.

I use PHP for 90% of my work because it's the right tool for the job. We can also bring other developers up to speed on our own framework and projects pretty fast.

There are times when Python is a better fit. The fact that it remains running across page loads can be very handy (as opposed to every request to PHP being completely distinct, which has its own advantages). A continuously running app is often better for backend processing, especially when interacting with third party systems.

I doubt it. With their volume and fraud prevention they get an extremely low rate. Paper adds employees, postal fees, office space, printers, etc. Just the fact they can have less employees without paper makes their public financial statements looks better (higher revenue per employee, lower capital expenditures, etc.).

Interesting theory, but you could easily look at my comment history and sig link and see I'm a software developer. No PR spin here.

The difference now is that soldiers and citizens are dying every day and it's being reported in the news. It's very easy for a politician to say something is necessary for the current war while we all know people are dying. The USSR was the perpetual boogie man who was most scary for what they didn't do. But the "war on terror" has hit US soil and soldiers are on the ground. One thing they have in common is politicians will the use the situation to their advantage.

I think what gets declassified now is great. What I'm talking about is the future. Only in the last 10 years have we been in what the government calls a permanent war on terror. In 30 years we could still be in perpetual war, based on the current crop of politicians we elect. So they'll surely redact more of the information from 2000 on if we're still in the exact same "war".

I know this is just one person's opinion, but I've been using 1&1 for years and I've been very happy with them. I have about 20 domains there and never had a single problem.

I wouldn't be surprised if little or nothing is declassified in the future. Given the never ending "war on terror" they can come up with excuses to redact just about everything.

I just priced it out last week for enterprise level at $10k. It's absurd to pay per processor when you get the same exact features, functionality, and support.

Microsoft currently charges about $10,000 per processor for SQL Server. They've had this pricing model for over a decade and still companies shell out the cash. Always amazes me.

What language doesn't? Blaming PHP for poorly written code is like blaming a car for having a bad driver.

I only block ads because the majority are intrusive and many sites are over saturated. If ads were all friendly I wouldn't block any of them. I think many (most?) people probably feel the same way.

I have to disagree with the Cake recommendation. I've tried many frameworks and watched presentations from some of their creators. Using Cake you'll often end up writing just as much code as if you didn't use a framework at all, which defeats one of the reasons for using a framework in the first place.

At my company we use a custom PHP framework. But if your backend is Python anyway, I recommend Django. It's especially good if your front-end is just a CMS. Even if it's much more than that, Django leaves you open to do as much custom code on top of it as necessary without getting in your way.

I can't find any examples online at the moment. They were basically political caricatures that people at the time would consider extremely offensive. Of course, to say they'd be the equivalent of "terrorism" today is very subjective, but I think if they had YouTube back then they would have been taken down :)

Ben Franklin himself spread propaganda in London that today we'd consider terrorism. You'll need to read up on attacks aimed at citizens, particularly loyalists, to understand more of what I'm talking about.