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After a few years of Java and C# (especially in finance) I came really close to leaving the software industry altogether. Ruby, and then Rails, brought me back into it.

They returned the joy and excitement I felt when I first got that ASCII eye to blink from the 250 lines of BASIC I typed in from the back of a magazine.

And I've never been happier as a developer.

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This is such a key point. I launched a startup in 2003 that was successful, and did it for four years. But at the end of that project I knew that if I had to go back to using a LAMP stack, I was out of the web development industry. Learning Rails brought back my enthusiasm and love for programming.

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