john on 7 Apr 2009 17:00:16 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] most common web dev technology in the Philly region?


Perl, nuf said....

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>From : Fred Stluka <fred@bristle.com>
To : Philadelphia Linux User's Group Discussion List 
<plug@lists.phillylinux.org> 
Subject : Re: [PLUG] most common web dev technology in the Philly 
region? 
Date : Tue, 07 Apr 2009 19:58:20 -0400
> Personally, I vote for Java, JavaScript, and Ajax, optionally using
> JavaScript libraries like DWR, Prototype, Dojo, jQuery, MochiKit,
> etc.
> 
> For a broader view than this small group can provide, see the
> various trends sites to see what people are searching Google for,
> or what job ads are mentioning, etc.  For example,
> 
>     
> 
http://google.com/trends?q=java%2C+c%2B%2B%2C+perl%2C+ruby&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all&sort=0 
>     
> 
http://www.simplyhired.com/a/jobtrends/trend/q-java%2C+c%2B%2B%2C+perl%2C+ruby 
>     http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=java%2C+c%2B%2B%2C+perl%2C+ruby&l=
> 
> but beware false hits that don't take context into account, so
> you have to find a way to not count all references to the word
> "net" when considering MS .NET, and references to the country of
> Java when searching for Java, etc.
> 
> Tim, thanks for the link to Tiobe!  Looks like a useful resource.
> I've added it to my the Jobs row of my links page, with the other
> trends sites:
>     http://bristle.com/~fred/#jobs
> 
> --Fred
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> 
> 
> 
> Tim Allen wrote:
> > If you me "Out There" as in personal projects, yeah, a lot of people 
> > are playing with Ruby. It is nice. Don't be shy of C# / .NET just 
> > because it is MS either, it is a pleasure to work with... and mono 
> > runs it quite well.
> >
> > In the work place, I think PHP is clearly ahead in the area, with Java 
> > and .NET not too far behind. Anything else in corporate would be a 
> > distant fourth. The Tiobe index tends to be a fairly accurate gauge of 
> > programming language popularity, world wide, and not just web dev 
> > languages:
> >
> > http://www.tiobe.com/index.php/content/paperinfo/tpci/index.html
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > -Tim
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 4:37 PM, Amaury Rodriguez 
> > <amaury.rodriguez@gmail.com <mailto:amaury.rodriguez@gmail.com>> 
wrote: 
> >
> >     If you like OOP, you'll have a lot of fun with Ruby.
> >
> >     ~
> >     Amaury
> >
> >         > On Tue, Apr 7, 2009 at 1:02 PM, David van Balen
> >         <dvb@temple.edu <mailto:dvb@temple.edu>> wrote:
> >         >> I'm thinking of picking up a book two and learning a new
> >         web development technology, so I figured I'd ask the list what
> >         people are seeing out there the most. Ruby on Rails? Java EE?
> >         .NET/Mono/whatever? Plain old PHP? Something else?
> >         >>
> >         >> TIA
> >
> >
> > 
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