I think both youth and the sort of person attracted to programming both contribute to the tendency to collect shiny new playthings, a syndrome covered in Jeff “Coding Horror” Atwood’s article, The Magpie Developer. I find that having a strong “get outside and away from the computer” lifestyle helps, and if that doesn’t work, growing [...]
The blogger at willcode4beer says in 17 Thousand Reasons I’m not a Ruby on Rails Developer that the median salary of Rails developers is on average $17K less than that for J2EE developers. I’m not worried — the pay at TSOT for RoR development is on par with the J2EE rates cited.
The article also suggests [...]
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