I’ll try to keep this brief. Five years ago, I left my job as a production PHP programmer at a national consulting firm (business consulting, not development consulting) to take a job writing ColdFusion at a startup on the other side of the state.

Since then, I have learned the ins and outs of an arcane version of ColdFusion while using more modern languages, such as Ruby and Python, only in my spare time. Finally, after all these years, the business sees fit to undertake a rewrite and to leave ColdFusion behind. After much deliberation, PHP was chosen.