Lamp

[oversteer]

LAMP dev, loads of experience.

I enjoy the work and if I can do it for two years while I build up a plan B, I will. However I have a sneaky suspicion there are not that many jobs out there and so I want to make myself more employable, plus if possible improve my earning potential.

There are quite a few permie jobs that would let me gain 'architect' experience, is it better to do this for a while and go back into contracting ?

Or try and pick up qualifications (Zend, MySQL) or try and really get into stuff like SEO, usability, design

Or just forget it, stick with what I know, and do as much networking (in the personal sense) that I can to try and stay employed as much as possible?

Apologies if you thought this was a 'what lamp to buy' thread..

[threaded]

As well as writing LAMP on you CV write the individual units too, i.e. Linux, Apache, MySQL and Perl.

There is lots of call for all those things.

[Ruprect]

I love lamp

[Lockhouse]

As well as writing LAMP on you CV write the individual units too, i.e. Linux, Apache, MySQL and Perl.

There is lots of call for all those things.

Also helps with agency search terms.

[Tarquin Farquhar]

As well as writing LAMP on you CV write the individual units too, i.e. Linux, Apache, MySQL and Perl.

There is lots of call for all those things.

Do you think there might be a chance that some agents might not know that the acronym refers to those individual components?

[stek]

As well as writing LAMP on you CV write the individual units too, i.e. Linux, Apache, MySQL and Perl.

There is lots of call for all those things.

Is it not Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP?

I could be wrong...

[threaded]

Do you think there might be a chance that some agents might not know that the acronym refers to those individual components?

Only if 'some' is a number approaching zero.

[Mich the Tester]

It's a bit dark in the gent's loo here, would you care to take a look at the lighting?

[DiscoStu]

I love lamp

WHS

Where did you get those clothes, the toilet store?

[administrator]

Is it not Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP?

I could be wrong...

Yes, is more usual for the P to represent PHP.

To the OP. Zend is a good idea. Also try getting into some of the other frameworks, Symfony, Cake etc. These go down well on CVs and a few good contracts about for them. Other good ones to get under the belt (and on the CV) are JQuery and MooTools to cover the JavaScript frameworks. On top of this you could also take a peek at Drupal, fair bit of demand and not many players from what I can see. Happy learning!