My 2 triabulle friends and me joined forces to work on a web project. Emile pushed hard and convinced both Dan and me to use cakePHP. My first choice was obviously Rails but still I was happy because it would give me the opportunity to try the PHP MVC framework for the first time. Well, I tried it and liked it. It doesn’t have all the features nor the “polished look” that rails may have, but it does the job very, very well.

One of the little things that makes ruby so different is the fact that you can use punctuation in the name of your methods. I could really well be wrong on this, but I think ruby is the only language that allows a programmer to name his method logged? for example. Oh well, I should play it more safe. Let’s say that ruby is the only language I know that allow this.

Think of all the things in ruby that impressed you when you first start using it and try to remember the one that won your heart. It doesn’t has to be a key concept or a complex principle. A simple twist in the syntax that had you say “Wow… I love this!” could do.