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IMHO, the need-to-knows are MySQL, HTML, JavaScript/XML/AJAX, both Python and PHP, and...Photoshop - and you can't really skip a working knowledge of all of them to be a viable "technology guy" going forward.

I don't feel like expending a lot of effort to become good at 2005-era corporate-style Java or C# is the way for a young developer to go right now. There is a big change looming ahead, and companies will be forced to stop paying big money for big, complicated, in-house projects. They are going to start demanding quick, cheap wins and that means web technologies, Open Source, the LAMP stack, and project teams of disposable programmers and temporary analysts.

16 posted on 09/04/2013 1:09:19 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves (CTRL-GALT-DELETE)

PHP is amateurville. I can’t imagine a first rate pro website being written in it.

20 posted on 09/04/2013 1:14:13 PM PDT by Borges

PERL isn’t going anywhere.

24 posted on 09/04/2013 1:16:44 PM PDT by dfwgator

My thoughts exactly. If there is such a high demand for code, the consultant firms who can farm out the projects will get the work.

60 posted on 09/04/2013 2:43:42 PM PDT by gr8eman (Ron Swanson for President!)

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