I'd recommend taking the scrolling "who I am" box and making it be fixed relative to the page or fixed relative to the screen. Its movement makes reading really annoying and it isn't convenient or anything.
I was so pleased with myself I didn't even bother reading the article...
I think the big secret about these recommendations is that it doesn't really matter _that_ much. Lots of people use different development environments, languages, and they get stuff done. I can scoff/smirk at Java ("Java. Heh.") but then my favorite web application is written in Java. My favorite text editor is written in a disgusting, horrible language. As for the PHP/Ruby/Python/Perl decision, it turns out that all of them work. Even PHP works. It turns out that the vast majority of time is _not_ saved by being able to write anonymous functions.