Ruby on Rails

I'm just starting to get into web development using the Ruby scripting language and the Rails framework, and I think it's awesome. If you are interested in a nice and developer-friendly framework and language, RoR would appear to be a good choice. If you're familiar with PHP already you'll probably become comfortable very quickly as some of the features that made PHP great exist in a RoR app too - such as embedding dynamic generation of static code inside script processing. And you aren't limited to HTML - for instance you can embed AJAX too. I think for anyone interested in web dev it'll blow you away :-)

Oh - and it's all free, platform independent and open source - w00t. Check it out!