Of course, the Perl 5/6 soap opera was not the reason for jumping the ship. 10 years ago RIA platforms were the rage (Silverlight, Flex). By this time I was wo

Of course, the Perl 5/6 soap opera was not the reason for jumping the ship. 10 years ago RIA platforms were the rage (Silverlight, Flex). By this time I was working in operations but willing to switch career to software development. Finally the opportunity presented and I picked OpenLazlo and PHP/MySQL. Two weeks later it was clear that I would not be able to meet the deadline using this platform. I googled for something like "productive web frameworks" and the top entries were about Rails, followed by Django. I could not make Rails work on my local development environment but the the Django tutorial worked like a charm. So the truth is that I started using Python more seriously because I was not smart enough to make through the Rails tutorial. But no complaints - Python/Django is paying my rent since then!