I disagree strongly with the article's premise. Don't take a job where a language and framework has been chosen that you don't know, where you are still at the

I disagree strongly with the article's premise. Don't take a job where a language and framework has been chosen that you don't know, where you are still at the point where building basic websites is a 'project'. Why not? Because obviously the company you are working for has no idea what they are doing with their time and money, and you're therefore unlikely to be in an environment with skilled coworkers. If you are really a beginning web developer, read the HTTP RFC. Learn HTML. Learn Javascript. Learn CSS. Learn basic Unix. Pick one simple project and implement it in three different languages. Then implement it with three different database layers. Then implement it with three different web servers. Then implement it on three different operating systems or at least Linux distributions. Now try to benchmark and scale. Compare multiple front end load balancers. Compare various NoSQL database architectures and caching solutions. Try some cloud hosting, see where it falls down. This will teach you far more than fiddling in one framework.