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06.04.07
It's Good To Have Ajax And Ruby Skills
 By Dan Morrill
The San Jose Mercury News has an interesting viewpoint on the desirability of web developers that can both code, and understand the requirements or ways that people communicate in the web 2.0 world.
Right now, the dogfight in the hiring process is for people who can communicate, and understand "how people communicate on the web". To communicate is to share ideas; this blows the old IT stereotype right out of the water.
Many things have changed since Web 1.0, in that Web 1.0 had many companies doing warm body hiring, people working naked stories, and a whole host of people going after certificates that had the cert but not one-day worth of actual skills on the platform.
It really did not matter how sociable you were or what your skills where in reaching out to people, many worked, and social ability did not matter, what mattered was the end result or product and the IPO.
Web 2.0 seems to be centered around another set of ideas, while money is still king, and everyone wants to be bought out or go IPO, the heavy emphasis on people with not just programming or business skills, but people skills is a major divergent point between Web 1.0 and Web 2.0.
Amid this new landscape, companies are looking for a new breed of engineer who can write code from both sides of the brain. It's enough of a challenge to find developers who have Ruby on Rails or AJAX programming chops. But the most sought-after also have a design sensibility and an intuitive understanding of how people communicate online. Source: Mercury News
The part about this is that people who understand how people communicate on line are those that communicate on line, those with the understanding of what makes Facebook and MySpace compelling.
They are social, gregarious, and this goes against the standard stereotype of the average IT worker.
This is one of those about time issues, and companies are focusing more and more not just on superior skills, but the ability to communicate those skills amongst a diverse team of people and customers.
The best question to ask is will this bring more people into IT and help average out the diversity in the field. Ultimately, though, companies stand to gain by focusing both on skills and on personality.
This might just make a completely new breed of computer professionals, those that can do, communicate, and understand what is going on around them.
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About
the Author:
Dan Morrill has been in the information security field for 18 years, both
civilian and military, and is currently working on his Doctor of Management.
Dan shares his insights on the important security issues of today through
his blog, Managing
Intellectual Property & IT Security, and is an active participant in the
ITtoolbox blogging community.
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