I have been bouncing back and forth between Django, Ruby on Rails, merb and many other frameworks/languages for the exact same reasons. I'm a nerd, I enjoying l

I have been bouncing back and forth between Django, Ruby on Rails, merb and many other frameworks/languages for the exact same reasons. I'm a nerd, I enjoying learning new languages and it would look great on a resume to have a few more under my belt. But - I always come back to PHP (and the wonderful CodeIgniter framework) when I actually need to get something accomplished. I know it like the back of my hand and I don't care what any of you say about the other languages and frameworks - I could not develop my applications anywhere near as quickly as I could in PHP. Yes, some of those frameworks are designed for rapid development - once you know the parent language! I say find a powerful framework for PHP designed for rapid development and stick with what you know. Play with Python and Ruby on your own time.