who needs social life when you have broadband?

Which programming language should we learn? I wish I could say “the funniest” but the market doesn’t seem to bother about it. While waiting the checkout (from my sloooooooooooow svn repository) of my final project @ college, I went to the biggest job search engine I know and started putting some simple terms in there. Here are the results:

languages:
PHP: 12,266 jobs
Python: 7,299 jobs
C#: 34,538 jobs
C++/Cpp: 52,305 jobs
ruby: 3,493 jobs
Delphi: 1,850 jobs (starting from delphi 7, delphi IS a programming language.)
javascript: 32,330 jobs
java: 77,395 jobs (omg!)

technologies:
ajax: 13,282
hibernate: 6.324
zope: 100
plone: 43
joomla: 151
jquery: 109.
SAP: 71,937 (OMG^3)

these results reflect today’s situation (sep, 24th, 2007).

I know one might start thinking: “ok, its time to learn Java”. I would recommend you to try a less painful programming language before loosing all your love for life. And I guess C++ salaries are higher (and the combo cpp+py seems to be quite funny though… think about it!).

I was looking for a dynamic title generator class and found this project. It is bloody easy to use/understand/modify and very flexible… I’m about to test the “bgimage” feature but I’m pretty impressed so far.

If you want to see what this library can do for you, check this website.