Tom Silver, senior vice president for North America at Dice Holdings Inc is quoted in the article:<p>"Demand is growing for people who know specialized programming languages like Ruby on Rails and AJAX"<p>So clearly clueful recruitment is not a skill in demand.
It's so refreshing and simplifying to look at what people need - what is actually useful and helpful to them - rather than what is technically "cool" at the moment.
"He also needs developers with open-source expertise -- a rare talent, he says" - Shane Kilgore<p>Surely OSS developers aren't particularly rare beasts. But perhaps they don't want to talk to him. That and the bit about AJAX the programming language make me think these folks are barking up the wrong trees.