Oracle and PHP

Oracle and PHP: "However - the most obvious and probably most widely used web script language PHP is supported in the Oracle database (RDBMS) now.
to be precise AFAIK they implemented a PHP-client adapter to use Oracle-Calls and OCI directly from within PHP scripts or pages, this does not mean, that you can implement the stored procedures in PHP vs. PL/SQL vs. Java ..."

Cool, it's about time.

PHP is makes writing web apps insanely easy. On a side note, the article has a nice graph with the growth of PHP since 1999. Looking at these is always fun for me, because my first PHP article was written in Sep 1999, and I spoke about using PHP at the O'Reilly Open Source Convention in August 2000. Talk about being in the right place at the right time.

What's not funny to me, but actually gives that feeling that I let something pass right on by me, is that despite writing articles, speaking at conferences, etc, I never made a penny from writing, or building a PHP website, although I built many, many for friends and myself. Some might say that is open source in its truest form - altruisticly sharing knowledge with others for the pure pleasure of sharing. All sounds good in theory eh? Maybe I built up some good karma. I have to admit though, that although I have moved on, sometimes I feel, when I see all the books out there, and the companies that support and write PHP, and all the people out there that actually do make quite a good living doing what i did for free, like the joke is on me.