+1 - i think the job market is really tight for anyone who codes right now - it's not just a ruby thing - but we get the better jobs :)
-ben On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 3:23 PM, Bayan Khalili <[email protected]> wrote: > I know that "more" doesn't always mean "better", but there are still > around 2 orders of magnitude more java or php jobs advertised than ruby. > Universities are probably just catering for that. > > Bayan > > On 26 April 2012 14:58, Daryl Manning <[email protected]> wrote: > >> +1 on educational advocacy. Anyone have an idea what USyd, UTS et al are >> teaching in terms of web development and frameworks these days? >> >> (I know during my UK MSc, java and C++ were the *only* programming >> options and the whole curricula was very, very Microsoft focused. It was >> swimming upstream trying to use php for web projects and/or ruby - hell, >> even a mac for that matter.). >> >> D. >> >> >> On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 2:19 PM, Leonard <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> This is probably wildly off-topic.... >>> >>> Where do we raise issues or suggestions for Ruby Australia in meeting >>> it's core aims? >>> >>> Today @dhh was tweeting that the "Rails job market still is [tight]". >>> One aspect affecting this is the lack of new ruby developers coming in and >>> learning Ruby. I feel that it should be the responsibility of Ruby >>> Australia to encourage Universities and High Schools to teach Ruby as >>> opposed to Java or PHP. I'm not sure about everyone else but my university >>> taught PHP as a web language (and now teaches PHP/Java from what I can >>> tell). I know that if I had been exposed to Ruby (or Python) at university >>> I would have spent much less time faffing around making crappy PHP websites >>> or alternatively being confused and overawed by those "enterprise" Java >>> monstrosities. >>> >>> Has Ruby/Rails education advocacy been discussed as one of the goals of >>> Ruby Australia? Should it be? >>> >>> -- Len >>> >>> -- >>> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google >>> Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. >>> To view this discussion on the web visit >>> https://groups.google.com/d/msg/rails-oceania/-/4zIirOMSUo0J. >>> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >>> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >>> [email protected]. >>> For more options, visit this group at >>> http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. >>> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> [email protected]. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby or Rails Oceania" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rails-oceania?hl=en.
