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Job Trends

Where are the cities with the most Web 2.0 jobs per capita?

Check this out!

Math Help From India?

A big "thank you" to former MBA finance student Sherri Sklepko for bringing the following New York Times article to my attention...

Hello, India? I Need Help With My Math...

What Do Students Think?

A Kansas State University student class polled themselves about what they are doing and what they are thinking...

They used Google Docs to gather information... 200 students made 367 edits...

Here is what they found....

Do you love '60's music as much as I do?

Have a look at this!

Goople - The Computing Environment of the Future?

There was an interesting blog post today that suggests that Google and Apple will combine strengths to produce and deliver the computing environment of the future.

This is a "must read"!!!!

John C. Dvorak at PC Magazine has an interesting article claiming that the business boom built up around Web 2.0 ideas is about to burst.

He calls this "Bubble 2.0".

"You can come up with your own theories about the next collapse. Your guess as to the cause will be as good as mine. All I can tell you is that it's a sure thing." he says.

I know that something just doesn't feel right to me either... but my own culprits tend to be arrogant managers, overly greedy investors and technology that just doesn't exactly fit user needs.

In the end, I suppose, it really doesn't matter what the cause may be, and I'm certain that, whatever it actually is, commentators will come up with a wide variety of theories.

The sad thing is that so many of our problems are correctable and/or avoidable.

Too bad no one seems to be paying attention... or care.

Ruby on Rails... in your future?

I have always been impressed with the potential of object oriented programming. I was giving college lectures about this 15 or more years ago, and I've always wondered since if any of my students then payed attention, or took advantage of the insights that I was offering them. Somehow, I really doubt this was the case. But object oriented programming is now the star of web development, so it may be time to re-emphasize the benefits of this programming approach.

Not that I'm a programmer myself, mind you. It's just because the concept makes so much sense to me... a modularization of software, so to speak, with many possibilities for code re-use. And ease of maintenance isn't far behind as a sensible feature, either!

But WHICH object oriented language? HOW to learn it?

There are many possibilities, such as Ajax, PHP, Java, and Python, just to name a few.

My favorite lately has been Ruby on Rails, mainly because I see so many Web 2.0 developers using it. That means there must be plenty of job opportunities!

How to learn it? Everyone has quite different background and experience levels, so it really isn't possible to suggest only one way, suitable for all, in every situation and circumstance. But here are some possibilities...

Online Course - Ruby/Rails Certificate Series (in development)

O'Reilly School of Technology

http://www.oreillyschool.com/courses/

Books -

Sams Teach Yourself Ruby in 21 Days

by Mark Slagell

Ruby Cookbook by Leonard Richardson, Lucas Carlson

Ruby on Rails: Up and Running by Bruce A. Tate, Curt Hibbs

Ruby in a Nutshell by Yukihiro Matsumoto

Ruby On Rails Essential Training by Kevin Skoglund

Other Ruby on Rails links -

http://rubyonrails.org/

http://www.workingwithrails.com/

http://rubynow.com/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ruby_on_Rails

http://rubylearning.com/

This is the place to find new tech information................

I am fascinated with the potential of Web 2.0 technology!

This is the place that I will be posting my thoughts on new developments.