And it was a good joke! I worked with PHP from 2004 to 2010. I worked with PEAR packages, early-adopted and watched the evolution of Zend Framework, ran both t

And it was a good joke! I worked with PHP from 2004 to 2010. I worked with PEAR packages, early-adopted and watched the evolution of Zend Framework, ran both the local PHP user group and company's internal PHP user group, used ORM solutions like Doctrine and wrote my own, laughed along when people were handing out "Fails" stickers at php|tek (a play on the Rails logo), helped write some PHP coursework in college, etc. If I can't poke fun at PHP, who can? I started using Rails for personal projects last year. When the opportunity arose, I was happy to join a consulting company that primarily uses Rails for web-based application development. Rails 3 (and now Rails 3.1) is awesome. Your joke is my recommendation to the folks I worked with that still do PHP all day: Check out some of the other things that are going on in the Ruby and Python communities. The developer experience is so much better.