Link dump: Aug 6, 2006
- Javascript Boot Camp Tutorial
- Groovy bits from Amy Hoy’s talk at OSCON 2006. [Via Spun]
- .NET developers make more money
- No mention of Java web developers. And even less mention of a methodology, so take it for what it’s worth. UPDATE: The author says:
I began searching job sites for currently available jobs within the US that said what the pay rate was per hour. I thought that jobs offered at a pay rate would be more reliable than asking people what they were being paid. … I went until I had 100 jobs for each technology and then did an average.
- eBay Sellers Turn to Teen Hangout ‘MySpace,’ Part 1
- Pretty self-explanatory headline. Indeed all sorts of people and businesses are turning to MySpace to promote themselves. [Via Micropersuasion]
- Saudi Youth Use Cellphone Savvy To Outwit the Sentries of Romance
- Bluetooth and SMS are making it easier for Saudi youth to connect discreetly.
- Expert Issues Warning About E-Passports
Electronic passports being introduced in the U.S. and other countries have a major vulnerability that could allow criminals to clone embedded secret code and enter countries illegally, an expert warned.
Wired.com has another story about RFID and hacking e-passports
Yeah those developer pay numbers are very vague.
Java is an interesting omission. Though it seems like much of the Java-related work that I see out there would probably go better under systems analysis than web development.
I’m surprised that ASP still fetches more than PHP on average. Probably because the dwindling supply of developers who want to work with that POS platform is introducing scarcity.