Room for one more on that bench?

[NickFitz]

and keep up the techie posting for BP

[Hiram King Of Tyre]

Has the market taken a turn for the worse?

[DiscoStu]

Has the market taken a turn for the worse?

Hope not, I think I may be gig-hunting in 6 weeks...

[oracleslave]

Hope not, I think I may be gig-hunting in 6 weeks...

I'll be starting the search then too.

[DimPrawn]

Has the market taken a turn for the worse?

A little:

http://www.jobstats.co.uk/jobstats.d...S.d/index.html

But not total doom.

[DiscoStu]

A little:

http://www.jobstats.co.uk/jobstats.d...S.d/index.html

But not total doom.

Yet...

(Stu in "Blaster Bates/Turion" mode )

[NickFitz]

Has the market taken a turn for the worse?

Not in my case - the reason I'm leaving is that the client, having been interviewing candidates almost daily since last December, has only now managed to find enough thoroughly competent people to complete the permy team. The best are still in demand, and therefore hard to find

[sasguru]

Not in my case - the reason I'm leaving is that the client, having been interviewing candidates almost daily since last December, has only now managed to find enough thoroughly competent people to complete the permy team. The best are still in demand, and therefore hard to find

What's your speciality, NF?

[NickFitz]

What's your speciality, NF?

Jack of all trades

More seriously... these days I concentrate on W3C-standards-compliant web development with due attention to considerations of usability, accessibility, and browser compatibility (i.e I know all the IE bugs and how to fix them).

Client-side: (X)HTML, CSS, REST, JS, including all the Ajaxy stuff, which I was doing on intranet apps back in 2000, before it had been invented Bit of a thing for URL design at the moment...

Server: over the years I've used Netscape's SSJS (anybody remember that?), Classic ASP, a bit of ASP.NET (though not for several years), a bit of Java Servlet API/JSP (again, not recently), and currently working with Django and Python, although I generally prefer to find a way of using XSLT given half a chance

Oh, and the kind of RDBMS skills that web developers tend to pick up - I'm no database specialist, but I can do a left inner join when I have to, mainly with SQL Server (though not recently) and mySQL (very recently).

Various other things which I can't remember...

Going back into the dim and distant past I've worked as a real-time systems software engineer (assembler and Forth), a games programmer (assembler except when I implemented Forth in assembler for the Atari ST and then did the project in that), and during a rather strange hiatus in my IT career, pub and bar management.

Oh, and I used to have a PDP-11/34A (with two RK-05 disc drives) in my bedroom - just because it was there, really...

[NickFitz]

Oops, forgot PHP and the Symfony framework

And a good understanding of HTTP, which is the one standard that the majority of web developers seem to either completely forget about, or have only the vaguest understanding of... mind, most of them don't understand the eight fallacies of distributed computing, either