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Re: Free auditing to 5-day Ruby on Rails codecamp next week

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On 11/10/2015 7:39 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> On 11/10/2015 9:38 AM, Eric Douglas wrote:
>> On Tuesday, November 10, 2015 at 8:41:59 AM UTC-5, Sang Shin wrote:
>>> I am conducting 5-day Ruby on Rails online codecamp next week (Nov.
>>> 16-20).
>>> And auditing is free.
> 
> I will not recommend anyone to take RoR training from someone posting
> it (aka spamming) a Java group.
> 
>> Is Ruby on Rails still a useful thing to learn?
>> Is GRails still useful/supported/popular?
>> I tried searching for info and found this thread that suggests they're
>> both dying.
>> http://www.coderanch.com/t/644878/oa/Play-Java-Play-Scala-Grails
>>
>> Is Play a better option?
>> https://www.playframework.com/
>> This works with Java, or do you have to learn Scala?
>> Are these technologies for client, server, or both?
>> Can a website be written with just Javascript, or is that just client
> side?
>> Are any of these better than PHP, or to be used in addition to it?
> 
> There are always anecdotal stories about this and that.
> 
> Let us try a more systematic approach.
> 
> See what companies are actually looking for.
> 
> Let us use dice.com assuming US market.
> 
> Languages:
> 
> 16783 jobs requiring Java
> 11918 jobs requiring JavaScript
> 2804 jobs requiring PHP
> 1910 jobs requiring Ruby
> 708 jobs requiring Scala
> 415 jobs requiring Groovy
> 
> Web frameworks:
> 
> 1150 jobs requiring node.js
> 883 jobs requiring Rails
> 862 jobs requiring Struts
> 545 jobs requiring Play
> 401 jobs requiring JSF
> 171 jobs requiring Grails
> 149 jobs requiring ZF
> 31 jobs requiring Wicket
> 
> Neither RoR nor Grails seems to be dying. But are not in the Java or
> PHP league either.
> 
> JavaScript with the exception of node.js and similar is client side,
> while the rest is server side.
> 
> Even with a true client side HTML/CSS/JS app you will need
> some services server side for practically all usage.
> 
> In the Java world those services would typically be based on JAX-RS.
> 
> Arne
> 
> 

I would not consider dice.com to be a reliable indication of any demand.

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Free auditing to 5-day Ruby on Rails codecamp next week Sang Shin <sangshinpassion@gmail.com> - 2015-11-10 05:41 -0800
  Re: Free auditing to 5-day Ruby on Rails codecamp next week Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2015-11-10 06:38 -0800
    Re: Free auditing to 5-day Ruby on Rails codecamp next week Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2015-11-10 12:15 -0500
    Re: Free auditing to 5-day Ruby on Rails codecamp next week Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2015-11-10 19:39 -0500
      Re: Free auditing to 5-day Ruby on Rails codecamp next week Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2015-11-10 21:01 -0500
        Re: Free auditing to 5-day Ruby on Rails codecamp next week Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2015-11-10 21:37 -0500
          Re: Free auditing to 5-day Ruby on Rails codecamp next week Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2015-11-10 22:13 -0500
      Re: Free auditing to 5-day Ruby on Rails codecamp next week Eric Douglas <e.d.programmer@gmail.com> - 2015-11-11 05:04 -0800
        Re: Free auditing to 5-day Ruby on Rails codecamp next week Jeff Higgins <jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2015-11-11 17:29 -0500
        Re: Free auditing to 5-day Ruby on Rails codecamp next week Arne Vajhøj <arne@vajhoej.dk> - 2015-11-12 22:10 -0500

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