[Novalug] [OT] Free speech, or how to commit career suicide with a keyboard. was Re: Pen is mightier than sword -- Speech restricted hereon, too

William Sutton william@trilug.org
Mon Jul 20 13:58:17 EDT 2009


I've worked at a couple of Gvt contractors, interviewed with another, and 
was approached by a recruiting agency about interviewing for an IT 
position working on a project for a major political party, all within the 
last 3 years.  All used Perl, most used Oracle (the political party was 
going to use Postgresql).  A couple also used Java.

>From a network/systems side, they sometimes had Linux, sometimes Solaris, 
often Windows, and usually Cisco.

William Sutton

On Mon, 20 Jul 2009, John Warren wrote:

> Most of what I've seen a need for is web development and web application
> development skills and database skills:
>
> HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Perl, JSP, C/C++ and .NET
>
> For databases:
> MySQL, Oracle and SQLserver
>
> Python, Groovy, Actionscript, jQuery, Flex, Drupal  and Web Security skills
> or familiarity are also somewhat in demand right now.
>
> Luckily for us, the LAMP stack is on the rise in the Federal government
> which is also being reflected in all the gov contractors and many adjacent
> businesses.
>
> -John W
>
> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 7:48 AM, Ed James <edjames@greenbelt.com> wrote:
>
>> John,
>>
>>   As somebody who is "paying attention" but not "actively looking",
>> might I ask what skills and languages are in demand?  I don't want
>> to cross over into the jobs posting arena, but I'm just interested
>> in the current skillset arena.
>>
>> Ed James
>>
>> Quoting "John Warren" <jpwarren00@gmail.com>:
>>
>>> ... my
>>> company is hiring like mad right now, ...
>>>
>>
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