PHP to RoR and Back Again
Derek Sivers, the guy behind CDBaby.com has a great blog post about his move to RoR then back to PHP.
Here is the comment that I posted, I just wanted to share it with you guys:
I think that most people, from these comments, missed the point of this article. This was not a technical article.
Sometimes we as programmers forget what our clients want… applications that just work. They don’t care how they just want it to do what they want it to do and do it well. If that means you can code in BASIC the best as anyone on the planet then use it! If for some reason you have 2 brains and Java is your cup of joe then DO IT. I personally use the most widely hated language, ColdFusion, and I have been using it for about 10 years now. I am really good at it and I can get things done amazingly fast. I do some fairly large platforms with it and it works very well. Adobe is still developing it, I still get paid gobs of money to program in it and I will keep using it as long as I can. Yes I still play around with RoR, PHP and .Net but if someone comes to me and says I need an app and I need it in 1 month I am going to use CF because that is what I know and it is what I work fast in. May not be the coolest on the block but for me it is what works.
Don’t just use a language because it is cool, use it because it works.
