+1 for homakov. Dude knows what's up.

http://www.sakurity.com/

Yep, Homakov is one of the best when Rails is involved.

thanks, but not rails. i probably should have mentioned this. i'm not trendy - its php.

Egor works on the wire protocol; his work is not language specific. The reason people think he's good at Rails is that he's recently caught some serious rails stuff.

But since what he's really looking at is the protocol, his work should be equally good in any web setting.