I've installed Ruby and Rails on my machine so that I can start poking around with it. themolotov.net is all run on PHP of course, but it will be cool, and hopefully beneficial, to learn Ruby on Rails...

A couple months ago, I helped some guy optimize his 14 million row MySQL database and afterwards he said, "we're looking for another Ruby developer, if you know anyone..." - I'm sure he was inviting me, but at the time I didn't know anything about Ruby or Rails. Since then, I've been kicking myself for not learning Ruby long ago. It's getting rave reviews, but for some reason I'm just not attracted to it. A language where you don't have to demarcate variables? Maybe I misunderstand some of the positive light that people are shedding on Ruby On Rails, but it sounds too 'loose' for me. I'm going to learn it anyway.

I was looking for possible work on http://www.craiglist.org and found a job with this description:

You must have extensive knowledge and experience of: Smarty Templates, HTML, DHTML, CSS, JavaScript, AJAX, and PHP.

It seems apparent that the people that need help with web technologies don't really know anything about them. The job lists: HTML, DHTML, Javascript, and AJAX. The poster needs someone that knows HTML and Javascript. DHTML is Javascript and HTML. AJAX is Javascript and HTML, admittedly focusing on the XML HTTP Request object.

I honestly can say that anyone qualifying for this position, should probably reconsider what they'd be getting themselves into.

I can't wait for Web 2.0 to blow over.