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If You Want To Code From Home, Learn JavaScript
itwbennett writes "Earlier this month, remote-work cheerleader and Basecamp developer 37signals launched a job board called WeWorkRemotely.com that is, you guessed it, devoted to telecommuting jobs. At present there are only a couple hundred jobs listed on the site, so you'll still have to use other job boards as well. (Dice, SimplyHired, and Craigslist all have filters for finding remote working jobs.) But here's another thing that will help you land a work-from-home gig: Learn JavaScript. ITworld's Phil Johnson looked at a number of job postings for software developers open to people wanting to work remotely and then compared the frequency with which a number of popular programming languages and technologies were mentioned by the postings to determine the top tech skills for telecommuting jobs. Not surprisingly, the ubiquitous JavaScript topped the list, being mentioned in just over 20% of these listings. Other languages and tools used for the web are high up the list as well: jQuery at #3 (12.5%), PHP at #5 (9.5%) in the fifth spot, iOS at #8 (5.6%)."
If I'm going to damn my soul, I'd rather find other ways
So, you've chosen Java as the way to damn your soul?
Sleep your way to a whiter smile...date a dentist!
You don't need a plugin to run Javascript
Yeah, I need a plugin to NOT run Javascript.
Nonsense.
If you know JS but not HTML 5, iOS app development, CSS 3, noSQL JSON, or any new web 3.0 stuff then I agree you aren't worth more than 2 an hour.
All I know is I see employers willing to pay $60,000+ or more a year to develop these apps. Craigslist and Monster is full of these jobs and they are going overseas because they can not find enough qualified workers. No not CHEAP qualified workers, I mean any qualified workers who know what a CANVAS tag is.
JS with HTML 5 pays a ton of money and you can download Virtualbox, turnkey Linux, Android SDK and use them all to have your own client/server app development at home. Microsoft is giving MS expressions both web and regular versions for free to at Microsoft.com which is close to Adobe Dreamweaver. Chome and even IE 11 have advanced tools too to troubleshoot and debug your JS.
This is where the market is going and even if you know IE 6 and IE 8 really well with MS SQL crappy intranet vendor companies are paying top dollars too if you want to specialize in this. Corporate customers do not care about staying modern and are more than happy to pay millions for it.
http://saveie6.com/
Have gnu, will travel.