Maybe advertising for their company too? Remember that app guy that hired the homeless dude to make apps. That was a huge ad for the app building company. Homeless dude made an app called "trees for cars". People downloaded the app to feel good about themselves.
Last I heard, The homeless dude is homeless again.
It is all Silicon Snake Oil.

odd story I saw on yahoo newa once. Woman said she taught herself SQL, now she has a start-up with over a million dollars in investments.

Not much to SQL. Just a part of web app development. I wish I could find that story again. You can't do much with sql alone.

Agreed. CoC is useless. This was funny as hell for people that get it. Sadly, Many will not get it.

Two things that are frustrating to me when I try to program. 1. How quickly the code changes. Books are useless. Old and insecure coding example still floating around on the web. 2. Look at me twitter. I am a girl reading a book on C. #girlsintech

The cool thing about LAMP, Linux-Apache-MySQL-PHP.
Been out there a long time. If you want some cheap shared hosting. MySQL and PHP is there. You want something fancy like Django, ROR, or MEAN. You may not have this option or you may have to install it yourself. PHP and MySQL is used pretty heavily still and is the backbone for wordpress. So I think it will be continue to be around for a while.

But I won't knock any other language or framework. If it works for them, More power to them.

What do they mean by using monjodb at the Apple? LOL, MEAN. (Mongoose, Express, Angular, Node)

I have started playing with MEAN, and I like it. But the faggots at NPM piss me off so bad, I want to stay the hell away and stick with PHP and MySQL. But I am going to stick with it. I don't want to be like those liberal fags that call for boycotts on everything they don't like.