After a few months of working with various programming frameworks, I have decided to put Ruby on Rails on the back-burners. Though RoR is a great framework, the extra overhead of learning Ruby is just too much for someone who loathes hardcore programming as much as me.

However, I liked the MVC concept so much that it would be in my best interest to stick to it for future tasks. That is why I have chosen to begin web programming with CakePHP. CakePHP is becoming one of the most anticipated and largest growing PHP frameworks. It is inspired by Ruby on Rails but written specifically for PHP. After reading many comparisions between this and other frameworks (Symfony, Seagull, Zend, etc), this appears to be the best choice.

Look forward to custom web-apps built by yours-truly with CakePHP.

Oh, and this also means I will not be writing anymore Ruby on Rails tutorials in the near future - sorry all.

actually after a few weeks of playing with CakePHP - I've realized that although it's a nice framework, there are certain limitations and fundamental difficulties that are going through revision. Because of this constant change - it is much more difficult to learn this product while keeping track of changes. A lot of refractoring needs to be done - much more than to my liking - therefore I want to wait till the product is more mature.

Though I will not be writing RoR tutorials in the near future - I think I will take my knowledge learned from CakePHP and go back into RoR.