Reply to: Room for one more on that bench?

[Hiram King Of Tyre]

That's the lot yes....

I know nuffin but I'm told it's worth having on your CV

[NickFitz]

I'm just getting involved with ATG based website development....apparently, I'm privilaged.

Just a contract to me....

Antiques Trade Gazette?

Ah, probably this lot

I don't think much of their URLs - they give the impression of having no clue about HTTP, or the nature and purpose of the hyperlink

[BrilloPad]

I'm just getting involved with ATG based website development....apparently, I'm privilaged.

Just a contract to me....

Are the rates good in ATG?

[Hiram King Of Tyre]

I'm just getting involved with ATG based website development....apparently, I'm privilaged.

Just a contract to me....

[BrilloPad]

King nerd

Once again DS hits the nail on the head.

[OwlHoot]

Oops, forgot PHP

PHP can be handy when the market gets really bad - I've filled in a couple of six monthers with it. But the rates are noddy, to reflect what many see as a noddy language (which in some respects it is).

[NickFitz]

King nerd

[DiscoStu]

What's your speciality, NF?

King nerd

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...

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

[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

[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...

[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]

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

[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 )

[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.

[oracleslave]

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

I'll be starting the search then too.