I today realized that I’ve slipped into a comfort zone – this is bad thing. Comfort zones hinder learning and personal development. Falling into a comfort zone can kill you and turn you into a hypothetical zombie. I’ve moved into a house and got myself a Land Rover and I’m living a comfortable lifestyle – I generally have everything I want and have wanted for the past couple of years. What now? Now I’m bored.The upcoming launch of Moo Invoicing should provide come excitement in the form of seeing something I created grow and expand, but only on a temporary scale. It’s been far too long since I’ve seen new places and done new things. In the form of new things, I’m busy learning Ruby on Rails (yes, I’m an extremely late adopter of RoR). The technology and thinking behind the Rails community is something that has not been seen in the PHP community for, well, possibly ever. I mean, look at Smarty, and then look at HAML. And LessCSS. And Sinatra. And Rails. ZOMG. And, on the flip side, all things awesome in PHP is based on something the Ruby community came up with. Look at Code Igniter and CakePHP. I’m not entirely dismissing PHP – I just think Ruby is a much amazing language to work in, mostly due to the community behind it. Also, look at the creators of PHP and Ruby:

Ruby:

PHP:

Nuff said.

As I was saying new places and new things – by new places I’ll probably look into heading to the US in the next year or so. Althought there’s an insane amount of opportunities here, I’m a bit bored of South Africa and what it has to offer at the moment. I’m hungry to get more external experiences and influences.

And that, ladies and gentleman, was my first personal rant on my blog. I hope to now start a PHP vs Ruby flame war here as to generate lots of traffic.