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Re:A programmer's personal story about finding a job in this... by potatolicious on Friday December 18, 2009 @04:15PM (#1003978)
I beg to differ. Both in the past and now - where I've been on both ends of the recruiting stick for web developer, it is incredibly hard finding someone with enough breadth to tackle what you do.

Someone who speaks fluent HTML, CSS, JS, PHP, Perl, Python, MySQL, Oracle and god knows what else is a lot harder to hire than someone who knows C# and Oracle. I'm not talking about trivial "I've heard of it" knowledge, I mean working knowledge. These guys are rare and very hard to replace.

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Re:A programmer's personal story about finding a job in this... by xsmasher on Friday December 18, 2009 @04:35PM (#1004030)
Of course it's hard. I think being fluent in all of those techs is unlikely.

I've seen too many back-end programmers who think they know js and css; they understand most of the syntax, but not the patterns in place, what wheels exist already, what libraries to use, or the quirks in the current implementations. Some don't really know the DOM, others don't really understand cascading. Sure they can make something that looks good in the latest Firefox, but when you open it in IE 6 or 7 you're screwed.

Example: Did you know you can't have a JavaScript variable that shares a name with a form element? Do you know why?

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Re:A programmer's personal story about finding a job in this... by dasil003 on Friday December 18, 2009 @04:21PM (#1003992)
The other part of this is that by learning more technologies you get better at learning faster, which is a huge asset whenever starting a new project.
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Re:A programmer's personal story about finding a job in this... by pbhjpbhj on Friday December 18, 2009 @04:52PM (#1004062)
I mean working knowledge

Yeah, but what does Google not know? ;0รพ

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Re:A programmer's personal story about finding a job in this... by noonespecial on Saturday December 19, 2009 @12:48PM (#1004926)
When to use those technologies.
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