one of my favourite redmonk decks ever. Stephen O'Grady showed the way forward for us in terms of presentation models

2. http://www.redmonk.com/public/simplicitylesscode.odp http://www.redmonk.com/public/simplicitylesscode.ppt

3. what is simplicity?

4. vs

8. does simplicity matter?

9. “ brilliantly simple” “ radically simple” “sense and simplicity”

10. what about technology?

11. HTML / RSS / ATOM

12. what about products?

13. you may have heard of these guys

14. a mere 100M downloads

15. linux seems to be doing ok

16. still popular despite the InnoDB thing

17. simplicity + coding = less code

18. who cares about less code?

19. “ There’s only really one metric to me for future software development, which is — do you write less code to get the same thing done?” bill gates linus torvalds “ Nobody should start to undertake a large project. You start with a small _trivial_ project, and you should never expect it to get large.”

20. where does PHP fit in?

21. simplicity = less code = PHP

22. “ There is an unacknowledged war that goes on every day in the world of programming. It is a war between the humans and the computer scientists. It is a war between those who want simple, sloppy, flexible, human ways to write code and those who want clean, crisp, clear, correct ways to write code. It is the war between PHP and C++/Java.” - adam bosworth

23. what is the opportunity for PHP?

24. PHP = the long tail

25. don't believe that?

26. source: Netcraft

27. who sees that opportunity?

29. so what's the point?

30. if ( $simplicity_lesscode_matter == true ) { echo "PHP's got a bright future"; }

31. credits art: openclipart.org (except for logos) add'tnl content: chad dickerson , jon miller, paul cooper , ryan tomayko & lesscode.org survey numbers: Netcraft license: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ www.redmonk.com