Hi, According to oreilly, the 2 hot skills in high demand in 2011 appeared to be Drupal and Hadoop.
Drupal is a CMS that is seeing its usage grow exponentially (also in the region), and hadoop is a distributed database that allows you to build really really big databases with huuuuge queries. We had Greg Dingle on one of our LUG meetings talking about Hadoop. Facebook uses it to mine its data. and the link: http://radar.oreilly.com/2011/12/developer-2011-year-in-review- mobile-html5.html rgds, Reinier On Monday 19 March 2012 15:00:26 Robert Muwanga wrote: > Hi All, > I was asked an intriguing question the other day and was hoping to seek > your wisdom on the matter. Its common for new developers to ask "What are > the most demanded for programming languages currently in the market" and a > ton of websites and forums emerge saying Java, C#, Python, etc. (with most > of the time a lot of flame throwing and table-bashing programmers demanding > that their language of choice is the best and most in demand). However, one > that is rarely asked is which niche programming skills are in demand. > Typical example would be things like kernel development, device driver > development, parallel programming, etc. However, I haven't come across a > ranking or salary scale that presents a picture on such demand. The thing > is that we know that such niche skills are prized mostly due to their > complexity but they are rarely talked about and which industry have > desperate need for such skills. > So what I wanted to ask, have any of you come across such information or > have an opinion on those hotly demanded for niche skills? -- rgds, Reinier Battenberg Director Mountbatten Ltd. www.mountbatten.net tel: +256 758 801749 twitter: @batje _______________________________________________ The Uganda Linux User Group: http://linux.or.ug Send messages to this mailing list by addressing e-mails to: [email protected] Mailing list archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Mailing list settings: http://kym.net/mailman/listinfo/lug To unsubscribe: http://kym.net/mailman/options/lug The Uganda LUG mailing list is generously hosted by INFOCOM: http://www.infocom.co.ug/ The above comments and data are owned by whoever posted them (including attachments if any). The mailing list host is not responsible for them in any way.
