What's the hottest programing skill set these days?

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  • interracialtoons
    Confirmed User
    • May 2006
    • 1910
    #1

    What's the hottest programing skill set these days?

    Back in the day (when I was a real person); I had the hottest programming skills on the market. I could go any where in America and land a job in 2 weeks between $40k and $50k. This was big money then!!

    (showing my age) My skill set was:

    COBOL, VSAM, CICS, JCL, VAX, VMS, TSO

    I had a larger skill set but the above was all that mattered, infact only the first 4 of the set mattered.

    What are the "Big Marketable" skill sets today?
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    • interracialtoons
      Confirmed User
      • May 2006
      • 1910
      #2
      Ahh come on. I would think that at least people looking to hire would claim what they were looking for as the hottest.
      Done.

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        • KrisKross
          Confirmed User
          • Jan 2006
          • 5025
          #3
          I have no clue, but AJAX and Ruby on Rails are both hot in the web development world.

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            • Dagwolf
              President of Canada
              • Sep 2003
              • 23141
              #4
              http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compari...ming_languages

              I couldn't make heads or tails of this, maybe a programmer could.
              Sleep well, and dream of large women.

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                • jasonir
                  Confirmed User
                  • Aug 2002
                  • 1887
                  #5
                  Someone please explain this ruby on rails shit to me. I know PHP. What fucking coke addict came up with that name, anyways?
                  ICQ: 61689996

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                    • darnit
                      Confirmed User
                      • Jul 2001
                      • 2439
                      #6
                      seems like ruby and ajax are the hot shit these days in my local job market.

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                        • High Plains Drifter
                          Confirmed User
                          • Jun 2005
                          • 2341
                          #7
                          C++, Java, and C#

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                            • KrisKross
                              Confirmed User
                              • Jan 2006
                              • 5025
                              #8
                              Originally posted by jasonir
                              Someone please explain this ruby on rails shit to me. I know PHP. What fucking coke addict came up with that name, anyways?
                              http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_on_rails

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                                • Fizzgig
                                  Registered User
                                  • Feb 2004
                                  • 9649
                                  #9
                                  Originally posted by High Plains Drifter
                                  C++, Java, and C#

                                  How do you say that, C pound?
                                  ---'-,-{@ Sassy Grrrl @}-'-,---

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                                    • jasonir
                                      Confirmed User
                                      • Aug 2002
                                      • 1887
                                      #10
                                      Originally posted by KrisKross
                                      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_on_rails
                                      Trust me, I tried that. I'm not smart enough to understand it.
                                      ICQ: 61689996

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                                        • martinsc
                                          Too lazy to set a custom title
                                          • Jun 2005
                                          • 27043
                                          #11
                                          Originally posted by Fizzgig
                                          How do you say that, C pound?
                                          C sharp...
                                          Make Money

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                                            • Shaze
                                              Confirmed User
                                              • Oct 2003
                                              • 2662
                                              #12
                                              RUBY ON RAILS guaranteed!!!!!! my brother is a programming geek and he has been preaching to me how powerful Ruby on Rails is since I first started talking to him about programming shit about a year ago...it's still a fairly new language but the scalability of it is insane

                                              also, there aren't too many hosts that support ruby yet....but i am starting to see more and more..
                                              Last edited by Shaze; 10-29-2006, 10:53 PM.
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                                                • interracialtoons
                                                  Confirmed User
                                                  • May 2006
                                                  • 1910
                                                  #13
                                                  Originally posted by Shaze
                                                  RUBY ON RAILS guaranteed!!!!!! my brother is a programming geek and he has been preaching to me how powerful Ruby on Rails is since I first started talking to him about programming shit about a year ago...it's still a fairly new language but the scalability of it is insane

                                                  also, there aren't too many hosts that support ruby yet....but i am starting to see more and more..
                                                  I'll research this ruby on rails thing, but something tells me that this aint that hot.

                                                  Game programming skills is probably paying the biggest bucks but there is not going to be that many jobs all around the country like when COBOL was the shit.

                                                  AJAX...well, we all fucking use that but we don't know it.
                                                  It's just using XHTML(which is HTML with stupid fucking end tags on the <br> tag and shit like that), Javascript, CSS and some XML.
                                                  A monkey can learn XML!!!
                                                  I don't see any company scrambling for this shit. Just hire someone who is good in Javascript and they can learn the other shit on 2 weeks training.
                                                  Done.

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                                                    • OG LennyT
                                                      Wall Street Pimp
                                                      • Jun 2003
                                                      • 14345
                                                      #14
                                                      Doesnt matter dude, by the time you learn several languages, the markets flooded and you have to learn something else to be more marketable.

                                                      or

                                                      The market gets flooded and all of a sudden you're laid off or pay is cut in half because now you are expendable.

                                                      Reasons I got out of the programming field......
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                                                        • borked
                                                          Totally Borked
                                                          • Feb 2005
                                                          • 6284
                                                          #15
                                                          Ruby on Rails from a programming perspective is frikkin excellent - you can do in 1 hour what it would take 1 day to do normally...

                                                          don't believe me - try writing a simple bloggin engine from the ground up with php - how long would it take you?

                                                          Try 15 minutes with RoR - have a look at this fantastic presentation on how simple RoR is to use:
                                                          RoR Take2

                                                          The tutorial also shows an excellent example of why Mac OS X is the programmers choice. xcode is just awsome.

                                                          Sorry, non-geeks wouldn't get it...

                                                          For coding work - hit me up on andy // borkedcoder // com
                                                          (consider figuring out the email as test #1)


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                                                            • Klen
                                                              • Aug 2006
                                                              • 32234
                                                              #16
                                                              If you want earn money,learn PHP,SQL and AJAX

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                                                                • interracialtoons
                                                                  Confirmed User
                                                                  • May 2006
                                                                  • 1910
                                                                  #17
                                                                  Originally posted by KlenTelaris
                                                                  If you want earn money,learn PHP,SQL and AJAX
                                                                  Yeah, I think people can do well with these.
                                                                  Done.

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