Top Ten Cloud Computing Skills Recruiters Search For
I recently had the opportunity to speak with Jennifer Bewley and Rachel Ceccarelli of Dice.com regarding the trends they are seeing in cloud computing recruiters’ searched-for terms on their sites. They’re seeing exponential growth in cloud computing-related job listings today and provided an analysis of the top ten cloud computing skills recruiters are searching for. […]
Some Economic Consequences of Dreamforce
It’s worthwhile to consider the economic consequences of Dreamforce — the products announced as well as the cultural issues it raised. Now, I am not an economist and I encourage you to think about that and maybe not read this if that matters. Many people might look at the news coming out of San Francisco […]
Software CEOs talking fluent dork: its the developers, stupid. New Kingmakers
A little after I wrote up the news yesterday that salesforce.com was acquiring Heroku I came across a quote from Marc Benioff, tweeted by @timanderson “Ruby is the language of the cloud 2″ Computerweekly has a fuller version: “Ruby is the language of Cloud 2 [applications for real-time mobile and social platforms]. Developers love Ruby. […]
Salesforce acquires Heroku: Dork Move, guys.
I came into the office this morning to see a tweet that stopped me in my tracks. Salesforce.com is acquiring Heroku for $212m. In cash! Beyond the obvious bubbliciousness of the deal was a cold hard truth about the once and future kingmakers – developers. You see I didn’t first hear about Heroku from a […]
Front-end development with Rails, Visual Studio 2010 – make all #001
In this inaugural episode, I talk with the developers next door to RedMonk Austin about their use of Ruby on Rails as a front-end layer. We spend a lot of time discussing UI toolkit choices and customizing, JavaScript and Ajax coding, using rails as sort of glue-layer to their UI, and heavy GUI development. Additionally, we talk about Pivot and Visual Studio 2010.
