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Day of The Dead: Web Drives Strong Demand for Java Skills

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» Day of The Dead: Web Drives Strong Demand for Java Skills Tweet As I have argued before, in IT everything is dead. So what about Java, in light of Oracle’s acquisition of Sun, and the complete win of the web over everything else? What role can Java play in a world of dynamic languages? Java… Neo4J?

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Day of The Dead: Web Drives Strong Demand for Java Skills

www.redmonk.com

» Day of The Dead: Web Drives Strong Demand for Java Skills Tweet As I have argued before, in IT everything is dead. So what about Java, in light of Oracle’s acquisition of Sun, and the complete win of the web over everything else? What role can Java play in a world of dynamic languages? Java… Neo4J?

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Techies? Write Your Own Ticket In Southern California

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What’s in demand? Or, what do you do if you’re just coming out of school and all you’ve done is Java coursework? Get involved in open source, as much as you can. If you’re a skilled technical person, you’re in demand — despite whatever you hear about the economy.

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Reincubate: Blog: Chief Technology Officer job description (for web, start-up or corporate)

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Design and maintain a roadmap of projects to meet demanding business objectives, taking advantage of trends and new technology where appropriate. Past contribution to one or more Open Source projects. Where necessary, produce cost-benefit and risk justifications for IT initiatives to win budgetary support from the board.

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How to build a multi-million dollar website without spending a cent

The Next Web

With the growth of open-sourced platforms and advent of ‘freemium pricing models’, the time to try is now. My personal favorites would be Java (Grails), Ruby (on rails) and PHP. The ability to drive user demand for your product through data analytics and testing to improve its conversion rate. Step 5: Marketing and sales.

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The Most Challenging Part of Becoming a Freelance Developer.

Software By Rob

Instead of being able to justify a somewhat fixed salaried workday, you find yourself working longer and longer hours as client demands increase. My first reaction is that becoming a freelance developer (or starting your own consulting firm) can also be a lot less conducive to launching a product.

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Embrace technical debt

Startup Lessons Learned

As in many scalability decisions, we’d have been much better off investing in agility, so that we could change the architecture in response to actual customer demand, rather than trying to predict the future. Leverage product development with open source and third parties. At least in strongly typed languages such as Java.