Cheer up people, we're in the boston area and we have an extremely hard time finding developers (web and perl), and soon rails. It looks like almost everybody with a clue has a job, or we're incompetent at finding them.
A few months ago I had read on CNN Money that for the most part technology based jobs are in the clear and will not be directly effect by the poor economy.<p>I just left a large company and went on a slew of interviews for new jobs, so it appears this is a decent theory so far.