Where Have All the IT Jobs Gone?
"I have over 100 resumes from my current programmer search and you're way off base on how common the combination is." Part of our disconnect, Chuck, is that I don't equate HTML with web application skills. I can think of few cases where RPG knowledge in combination with HTML is good for much of anything except perhaps basic CGI programming. Why would you have RPG programmers designing HTML? HTML is usually best designed by a good HTML design tool. Web applications, on the other hand - JSPs, and certainly servlets and JSP II architecture - is definitely a plus for an RPG programmer. Another plus would be SQL and especially stored procedures. XML and the ability to access the IFS, definitely a good skill to add to RPG. But basic HTML just isn't a power skill. So are you telling me the key to programming in your shop is RPG and HTML, with JavaScript for good measure, and no Java or JSP? My guess is you can find plenty of those right here in America. Joe
"I have over 100 resumes from my current programmer search and you're way off base on how common the combination is." Part of our disconnect, Chuck, is that I don't equate HTML with web application skills. I can think of few cases where RPG knowledge in combination with HTML is good for much of anything except perhaps basic CGI programming. Why would you have RPG programmers designing HTML? HTML is usually best designed by a good HTML design tool. Web applications, on the other hand - JSPs, and certainly servlets and JSP II architecture - is definitely a plus for an RPG programmer. Another plus would be SQL and especially stored procedures. XML and the ability to access the IFS, definitely a good skill to add to RPG. But basic HTML just isn't a power skill. So are you telling me the key to programming in your shop is RPG and HTML, with JavaScript for good measure, and no Java or JSP? My guess is you can find plenty of those right here in America. Joe
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