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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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Software Development Estimates, Where Do I Start?

Diego Basch

The government wants you to build a spaceship to fly to the moon. There is a type of software development that works like this: porting old applications to a new language (say COBOL to Java back in the day). The malleability of software makes it easy to explore an open problem. It’s a virus. How long will it take?

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

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Hold responsibility for IT governance of platform & services, including telecommunications, networks, infrastructure, engineering, media, and architecture. Past contribution to one or more Open Source projects. Prepare and test disaster recovery plans, and contribute to the broader business continuity plan.

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CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

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As one of the coherent commentators says below, Joel Spolsky himself laments schools teaching Java with the same basic reasoning of my article above, albeit more diplomatically stated.) .NET My example: I have mainly programmed _by choice_ in Python, Ruby, Scala, Haskell, C# and currently I’m doing Java. The list goes on and on.

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