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Open Source On The Rise, Online Work Index

The April Online Work Index reveals that IT and marketing skills continue to dominate the online work landscape as the Top 10 graphic clearly demonstrates.

Beyond the general demand for technology and marketing skills, businesses are clearly chasing domain expertise in open source technologies, help with delivering world-class user experiences, and insiders with savvy working with social media.

  • Open Source on the Rise: The overall trend of businesses migrating to open source technology solutions is stronger than ever with PHP (#1) programming now topping the Index followed closely by MySQL (#2). Demand grows for a variety of other open source skills including Joomla (#18), Drupal (#48 – up 10 spots), osCommerce, (#49 – up 20 spots), Ruby on Rails (#73 – up 27 spots), and Linux (#74 – up 13 spots).
  • User Experience Paramount: With more pressure than ever for companies to compete with world-class user experience, hiring trends show accelerating interest in technologies that deliver and enable great customer experiences, such as HTML (#3 – up 3 spots), Flash (#10 – up 2 spots), AJAX (#12 – up 14 spots), JAVA (#16 – up 13 spots), and – the biggest mover on the list – Actionscript (#56 – up 43 spots).
  • Social Media Rising: Social media continues to gain mainstream traction as companies strive to connect with customers, drive traffic, and become part of the online conversation with their communities of users, partners and even prospects. Demand for professionals skilled in developing for Facebook, Twitter, and blogging applications is surging. WordPress (#15) and Blogs (#19) crack the top 20, while Social Networking (#38) moves up 6 spots, Facebook (#61) is up 10 spots and Twitter (#93) makes its debut on the Index.

FLEX What’s IT?

Alright here it comes what I was doing since last week, going to share what’s it all about…

yes that’s right I was working on flex since last week and really going to love this technology let’s have a quick overview of Adobe Flex

Flex is a technological framework used for building Flash-based Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) compatible with major browsers, desktops and operational systems.

Flex and Flash, just like Ajax and JavaScript, are related technologies, with the former being a set of tools intended for developers rather than designers. Flex is primarily used for interactive and data-centred applications, yet in case there arises a necessity to maintain a content-based focus as well, with Adobe Flash 3 you can use the Flex Ajax Bridge to integrate the two technologies.

If you need web applications which would be most attractive for visitors, i.e. prospective clients, Flex development is certainly a good idea, with the broad range of features such as dynamic animations, sound, video, etc. available. Moreover, running Flex applications is unlikely to pose any difficulties: Adobe Flash player is being used by an overwhelming majority of net surfers. Those who by some chance don’t, are free to get it from Adobe.

When you going through Flex you really need to know Adobe AIR, The new Adobe AIR™ runtime let you use Flex technology to build and deploy to the desktop. AIR applications run across operating systems and are easily delivered using a single installer file. With AIR, you can use existing skills, tools, and code to build highly engaging, visually rich applications that combine the power of local resources and data with the reach of the web.

Now think about this, you’re web developer and develop websites using PHP & MySQL but always wish to develop interactive + dynamic websites but really don’t know how to use flash and connect flashly websites with php server… with Flex can do all this and believe me it’s quite easy keep visiting will post some of Flex tutorials and relevant material soon :)