From: "John-Mason P. Shackelford" Date: 2005-03-26T22:14:14+09:00 Subject: Re: comment on today's poll and more questions Phil, Several years back I read somewhere that industry leaders (speaking of corporate technology firms) are those that create the tools that others will eventually have to learn to use in order to succeed in their own businesses. This seemed to be to be sound not only on the corporate level--but also in terms of my value as an employee and it has served me well as a guiding principle in the last few years. So to answer your question more directly. Instead of looking for a Ruby job my approach would be to find an area in your own company where you can deliver value by creating facilities that will become widely adopted. Leverage previous successes to do more of the same. Eventually you will own a technology area and will be able to make your own decisions about what technologies are most appropriate for your work. John-Mason Shackelford Software Developer Pearson Educational Measurement 2510 North Dodge St. Iowa City, IA 52245 ph. 319-354-9200x6214 john-mason.shackelford@pearson.com http://www.pearson.com/ Tomson wrote: > It's interesting to see all of the 'a' answers to the first question of > the poll today (meaning that they are using Ruby all the time in their > work). This seems to be a marked change in the Ruby community since a > year ago when the 'a' answer would have been much rarer. > > Can some of the folks who use Ruby 'all the time' at work offer advice on > how to find Ruby work/contracts? I suspect 'Learn Rails' would top the > list - but what about other areas besides web programming - is Ruby making > more inroads in those areas as well? > > How about those of us who have not done any web programming in the past, > but know Ruby - do we have an edge for the web programming (Rails) jobs > as well, or is it better to have done web programming and no Ruby than > the other way around? Just curious. I'm considering learning SQL and > Rails and trying to get into web programming field so I can get paid to > do Ruby programming again, but I've never done any web programming > before (one of the last holdouts, I guess). > > Phil > >