[The Java Posse] Re: LinkedIn skill trends?

2012-10-09 Thread Casper Bang
How do we define popularity/trend? (jobs, qualifications, usage, tags, searches, literature, courses etc.) How large is this sliding window? (too fine grained a resolution drowns in spikes/noise) How do we categorize/group related stuff? (Does .NET or ASP get included both in C#, F#, Visual

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: LinkedIn skill trends?

2012-10-09 Thread Fabrizio Giudici
On Tue, 09 Oct 2012 10:19:27 +0200, Casper Bang casper.b...@gmail.com wrote: How do we define popularity/trend? (jobs, qualifications, usage, tags, searches, literature, courses etc.) How large is this sliding window? (too fine grained a resolution drowns in spikes/noise) How do we

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: LinkedIn skill trends?

2012-10-09 Thread Martijn Verburg
The analyst firm RedMonk has been doing this for at least 2-3 years now - I highly recommend checking out their findings. Cheers, Martijn On Tuesday, 9 October 2012, Fabrizio Giudici wrote: On Tue, 09 Oct 2012 10:19:27 +0200, Casper Bang casper.b...@gmail.com wrote: How do we define

Re: [The Java Posse] Re: Anyone using ultrabook for development?

2012-10-09 Thread Ben Smith-Mannschott
I use a 2010 MBA as a secondary development machine and am pleased with the battery life and performance, but I don't develop things that have to be hosted on an app server. Eclipse and Emacs run well enough. I find the SSD makes up for the relative lack of CPU performance (the 2010 MBA is still a

[The Java Posse] Re: LinkedIn skill trends?

2012-10-09 Thread ranjith
Also, http://careers.stackoverflow.com/ featured jobs gives a trend in tech jobs On Monday, 8 October 2012 14:56:46 UTC-4, fabrizio.giudici wrote: You know, I'm a bit frustrated by recurrent discussion about language trends because we lack a solid statistics base. We all know the