January 14, 2002

"Hey, we might have a

"Hey, we might have a job for you."

"Great, what do you need?"

"Do you have java servlet experience?"

"Yes, I do."

"1.1 and 1.2, application server, session management, templates, databases, source management?"

"Hey, yeah! On all of those!"

"Ok, call you back."

ring...

"Hey, me again - do you have IDE experience?"

"Yeah, I've been doing that lately. They're all pretty similar."

"XML experience?"

"Yup, have that too."

"Call you back."

ring...

"Do you have experience with TIBCO, COGNOS, and BEA WebLogic?"

oh, shit..."TIBCO is an IDE for XML, and they are all similar. I have XML and IDE experience, not with TIBCO itself. WebLogic is a branded application server - I helped develop one of those in-house, but haven't had a project that used WebLogic itself. I don't know what Cognos is."

"Sorry, we'll have to keep looking!"

this market pisses me off. Posted by Curt at January 14, 2002 02:16 PM