I used to get excited when these contract ads popped into my e-mail box. Not any more, they go straight in the bin. Quite a lot of them tend to be of the nature ‘my previous web developer has disappeared..’. It’s ghastly to think there must be quite a number of unethical or otherwise incompetent people who call themselves engineers or web developers. But that wasn’t the point of this post.

The point was: Who needs PHP? Okay, let’s rephrase that: In 5 years’ time, who will need PHP? I’ll tell you: the ‘unethical or otherwise incompetent people who call themselves engineers or web developers’. Everyone else, you know, the ones who get the job done and who know what they’re doing, will be using Ruby. And Rails too if they have any sense.