So, I thought I had this all figured out. I started playing around with the Yii framework for PHP, and then read a bunch of reviews about how similar it was to Ruby on Rails.

So then I started playing around with Ruby on Rails again. Now with a bit better understanding of how it all works, it… well frankly, it’s fun. Ruby is a joy to program in, and Rails makes certain things really slick and easy once you figure out what the conventions are.

So right now I’m coding my first task (importing the zip code database) in parallel in RoR and PHP/Yii. We’ll see which one wins.