Finding more and more on projects that, old fashioned admins are less useful and you need developers to script server installations and automate the infrastructure. Whole new area its quite exciting.
Javascript interpreter wars are awesome keep getting more innovation, I'm happily using Node.js for my servers now. Its pretty cool the Mozilla guys are using some of the webkit javascript engine, talk about collaboration.
First JRuby guys to Engine yard, now Tim. Sun is losing a lot of good people. Now I wonder how the main ordinary developers are doing there ;/ Can't be a fun place right now
I don't it helps that most startups here in NYC are pretty lame, ripoffs of yelp or really weak ideas. I have been very unimpressed and stayed away from both startups and wall st.
Thats really scary, trust is always a concern when your in a managed hosting solution. How do we know that people from their company aren't taking advantage, even if the Godaddy isn't trying to.
I'm glad someone responded to the original post, after so many years of java, I can't really say I ever enjoyed factories they always seemed to solve a problem that was a weakness in the language itself.
Thats confusing to me also, did you mean the product development? I could see outsourcing the coding would be easier then having people run around and interview people for you.