[imownbey]

"Bad programmer writes bad code"

This is hardly a new idea. The fact that a bad programmer used Ruby on Rails, or Django, or PHP, or C++ to write bad code and implement it on a shoddy system is no reflection on anything. This is essentially a story of someone who took good advice for a hosting environment, and someone who took bad advice for a hosting environment.

Learn your tool, don't buy into the hype. Make sure you are aware of the reason behind everything that you do (because they I read it on a blog is not a reason). Don't be a bad programmer.

[DougBTX]

Simply knowing particular languages has been pointed out on sites not too far away from here as a sign of a Good Programmer. This counts as evidence to the contrary. But not absolute evedence, I guess we all still have to think for ourselves.

[Periodic]

I could understand an argument that knowledge of certain languages is correlated with being a Good Programmer.

This guy seems to have heard about the cool tools of the day, jumped in, and failed mostly due to a lack of experience.

One great lesson of experience is that there is often a simple solution to complex problems.