I've noticed that more and more websites are being run powered by django. I ignored the ruby on rails revolution and did quite well with php. However, having worked on several large installs it seems as if php is often not up to the task. It seems woefully inefficient to have a web application (they aren't scripts anymore) without state, so everytime it needs to hit disk to load a session or the database to re-run hundreds of initialization queries each time. One can just throw more hardware are it, but perhaps there should be state.

I'm playing with django for a few ideas I've had and will see how its goes. I've used phpCake and Code Igniter in the past, but wasn't a big fan of them, perhaps because when I do things in PHP I do them the way I'm used to after 7 years of programming. Perhaps a switch of languages will be the mental switch to really get into the MVC framework. I like python, so it shouldn't be hard to get into the hang of things. Also there seems to be a great community around django which can make finding howtos easy as pie, whereas projects like ezPublish have no community and therefore are a pain to get things done until one has worked themselves into it sufficiently.