The Major drawback I and my company has seen is this: When you acquire a client that has heard a buzzword like "JSP" or "ASP" or "Oracle" and they get that stuck in their head..if you can't redirect them you lose their business. Since the market is tough right now, a company will take what they can get. Even if that means forcing their PHPers to do a project in VB or ASP simply because the client thinks that's what they want. You have to be truly diversified as a programmer these days. Especially when your company gets clients where a project has been started by someone else but they want you to finish it. Or to fix it. If you are lucky enough to get to have say in what a project will be done in, by all means PHP all the way! But if you aren't, and your client assumes anything that is free isn't stable (argh) then you are stuck accomodating. Last thing you wanted to know is "Learn em all!" ? HUH? Angie Tollerson Alliance Technologies Web Programmer (515) 245-7628 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>> Mihail Bota <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 10/16/02 01:22PM >>> Nevertheless, there are two interesting points: 1. Many job ads are emphasizing the knowledge of specific scripting/programming languages, as if the person should have unique capabilities, as Rasmus pointed out. If the person who is applying for a job did not work with a specific language or he/she does not have enough experience, his/her application may go to the trash bin immediately. 2. Are there some serious statements, documents, analyses, that show that PHP might be the new "Big" thing, or this is just like a rumour? Rasmus, just wondering, any species requirements from that moneky to learn PHP? It would be interesting to see a gorrila and a lemur coding in PHP, side by side :) On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, Rasmus Lerdorf wrote: > They are, but personally when I hire a "PHP" programmer I don't look for > PHP skills. I look for other skills that show that the person is bright. > I can teach a moderately intelligent monkey to use PHP. > > I think most people look at things too much from a tool perspective. You > don't hire a newspaper writer because his resume says he knows how to > type. You look at what he has written. He may not be able to type at > all. > > -Rasmus > > On Wed, 16 Oct 2002, RS Herhuth wrote: > > > > > I hear from a lot of different sources that PHP is the next "Big" thing. I > > have been using PHP myself for some pretty serious web application > > development for my current job for well over a year now. But my question is > > in searching for potential PHP related employment there isn't much of > > anything out there. So who is using PHP and why aren't they hiring? > > > > R > > > > > > -- > > PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > > -- > PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > -- PHP Windows Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
