[gabeh]

I love this advice. Here is a blog post that I keep coming back to regarding this.

http://mcfunley.com/choose-boring-technology

[cgrusden]

Wow, love this article. The context of this article is how I ran my consultancy and the developers didn't enjoy my choices to choose the "boring" tech over what new tech they wanted to bring in, in the middle of a project. "Secrets of Consulting" is a great book if you've never read it, too