I love the part about "LAMP is everywhere now--these types of technologies no one heard of 18 months ago are all the sudden becoming a hot commodity."
I have an old newspaper clipping from 2000 with a full-page photo of Linus on the front page of the business section from Canada's Globe & Mail (the country's largest newspaper).
Perhaps that will inspire the clueless recruiters to only look for < 18 months of LAMP experience?
Indeed. I chortled when I saw that line, and mumbled to myself "I used LAMP in 2000..."
I've only slowly realized how trivial it is to stay several years ahead of the "enterprise". Stuff people at Hacker News consider old hat by now (Rails, say, or Django) will be big news in the enterprise a couple years from now. Then a few years after that will come excitement about Erlang, and Scala, and Seaside...
I have an old newspaper clipping from 2000 with a full-page photo of Linus on the front page of the business section from Canada's Globe & Mail (the country's largest newspaper).
Perhaps that will inspire the clueless recruiters to only look for < 18 months of LAMP experience?