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Why I think Ruby on Rails is an ideal web development environment
As a contractor it is always wise to stay on top of upcoming technologies, today's niche market may be tomorrow's big earner. This year I decided to learn Ruby on Rails, so I thought I'd write a post on why I think Rails is such as excellent development system.
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Be careful choosing a domain name for your site
Be very careful how you choose your domain name. A friend at work forwarded this content and it shows some of the pitfalls of innocent sounding names.
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I am a web developer creating sites for a number of clients through my company NextGen Development Ltd using PHP5 and MySQL. Recently I've been using/recommending the Symfony framework as it's an excellent solution for building websites that are robust and have a high level of functionality in a short timeframe.

I've been developing web applications since about 1996 (initially in Perl, then using PHP since 1999) for clients such as OXO, Fortnum & Mason and IPC Media Ltd. I've worked on over 400 sites over this period and am currently focusing most of my energy on a few important clients: IPC Media Ltd, Mansized and Pocket-Lint.

In my spare time I am a Kukki-Taekwondo 3rd Dan black belt, father to two young children and a husband to my darling wife. Then again, what is this spare time thing...?