Mike Cahill on 7 Apr 2009 17:32:02 -0700


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


My favorites include: Java backend/JSP servlet, with JavaScript/AJAX 
(ExtJS is awesome) for frontend stuff.  We're using a mix of 
Python/ExtJS at my current job.

Mike Cahill

john@essenz.com wrote:
> Perl, nuf said....
>
> ----------------------------------------------------
> >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
>> ---------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Fred Stluka -- mailto:fred@bristle.com -- http://bristle.com/~fred/
>> Bristle Software, Inc -- http://bristle.com -- Glad to be of service!
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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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