[busterarm]

I'm primarily a Ruby developer, but my current gig has me working exclusively in PHP (and worse yet, Wordpress). PHP as a language is actually pretty stellar these days. There are things about it that I dislike, but there has been a lot of recent work put in to improving the language. I'm always finding nice features.

Really the place that PHP is lacking is on the tooling/ops side of the projects built on top of it. A lot of what I have to work with still seems to be 15 years old. That said, it's getting better and other peoples' preferred tools have their share of problems as well.

[rawfan]

> A lot of what I have to work with still seems to be 15 years old.

Like what?

[busterarm]

Ops practices of WordPress hosting companies. Pantheon is one of the few exceptions to this, so props to them.

Management panels of hosting companies.

UltraDNS's website.

Salesforce.