Tools of the Trade: Web development tools list

Well, it's not mine, but it's great.
Dion Almaer's Web resources page includes a shiny list of web resources/tools/tips he uses when developing web applications (on PHP though, baaah.).
He indicates that some of the links are outdated, but promises to fix it. as soon as possible.

Tim Bray: Ruby is the Leading Language for Web Applications

A pretty while ago in fact (Apr 2008), i wonder what the status is right now..
"In his keynote talk at the recent Silicon Valley Ruby Conference, Sun’s Tim Bray asserted that “PHP and Ruby are the languages of choice for new web apps.” Coming from most people, this wouldn’t be a remarkable comment, but given that Tim is Sun’s director of web technologies, it is worthy of note. Java wasn’t even on Tim’s list, much less his recommended solution."
from Building Web Apps (subscribe to their RSS, recommended!)

Trying out Akelos

Akelos became very intersting after a guy pulled it out of the sleeve in one of my many "Rails is better" duals with PHP/.Net developers.
I had no idea at the what he was talking about (shame on me..) so i decided (and promised that guy) to do some work on Akelos a little bit, and than go back and tell him that i still prefer Rails.

Well, a little bit about Akelos.
Akelos is an MVC PHP web development Framework which consists over favoring convention over configuration, sounds familier?
As far as a basic overview and right before starting my first Akelos application, i find it rather a PHP Rails replica, even with some basic convention naming (has_many? again?) but the basic syntax is still PHP and consists too much over direct SQL.

$Project->findFirstBy('language', 'PHP');

in ruby

Project.find_by_language('PHP')

This is a very simple example, i will try to find out how well it goes when trying to preforms something more complicated in Akelos.