Missed a couple of weeks due to my trip to Asia.? Here are this week’s figures from Dice for progress in job postings for C# and WPF:
WPF All of Dice: 125
Silicon Valley: 4
Blend All of Dice: 1
Silicon Valley: 0
Silverlight All of Dice: 30
Silicon Valley: 1
C# All of Dice: 7834
Silicon Valley: 247
WPF jobs have more than doubled since I started tracking this five months ago and Silverlight jobs have more than doubled in just over two months.?
August 13, 2007
Here are this week’s figures from Dice for progress in job postings for C# and WPF:
WPF All of Dice: 116
Silicon Valley: 7
Blend All of Dice: 1
Silicon Valley: 0
Silverlight All of Dice: 22
Silicon Valley: 2
C# All of Dice: 7516
Silicon Valley: 252
Continuing improvement this week in the figures for WPF and Silverlight.? ?
Here are this week’s figures from Dice for progress in job postings for C# and WPF:
WPF All of Dice: 98
Silicon Valley: 5
Blend All of Dice: 2
Silicon Valley: 0
Silverlight All of Dice: 15
Silicon Valley: 0
C# All of Dice: 7361
Silicon Valley: 245
Some more improvement this week in the figures for WPF.
July 12, 2007
Here are this week’s figures from Dice for progress in job postings for C# and WPF:
WPF All of Dice: 87
Silicon Valley: 4
Blend All of Dice: 4
Silicon Valley: 0
Silverlight All of Dice: 15
Silicon Valley: 1
C# All of Dice: 7240
Silicon Valley: 223
Very little change from week to week.
Here are this week’s figures from Dice for progress in job postings for C# and WPF:
WPF All of Dice: 87
Silicon Valley: 3
Blend All of Dice: 2
Silicon Valley: 0
Silverlight All of Dice: 18
Silicon Valley: 1
C# All of Dice: 7541
Silicon Valley: 239
Sadly, I missed a week due to overload with the end of the spring term and three MSDN Webcasts.? However, I added a new feature to my Job Tracker:? Silverlight. Over the three months that I have been keeping these records, WPF jobs have risen by about 50% on Dice (57 - 87) and by 400% on Monster (25 - 104).? Over the same period, C# jobs on Dice have risen by 14% (6631 - 7541) overall but declined by 4% (250 - 239) in Silicon Valley.?
Here are this week’s figures from Dice for progress in job postings for C# and WPF:
WPF All of Dice: 85
Silicon Valley: 3
Blend All of Dice: 2
Silicon Valley: 0
C# All of Dice: 7289
Silicon Valley: 225
WPF and Expression Blend both flat, C# down just slightly both in Silicon Valley and overall.
June 8, 2007
Here are this week’s figures from Dice for progress in job postings for C# and WPF:
WPF All of Dice: 84
Silicon Valley: 3
Blend All of Dice: 2
Silicon Valley: 0
C# All of Dice: 7344
Silicon Valley: 245
No appreciable change from a week ago. “WPF Rock Star” position still open — hurry with your resume before they snatch someone less qualified.
June 2, 2007
Back in San Jose now after my trip to Chile and Bolivia.?
One of the most fascinating aspects of this trip was the Yungas Death Road.? For many years this road had the (justified) reputation of being the most dangerous road in the world. Check out some fascinating photos here, ? here ? and here?
Due to the recent opening of a new, safe, paved, two lane highway that bypasses the Death Road, it has now been turned into a beautiful (and not particularly dangerous) hiking and mountain biking trail. I hitched a ride with one of the mountain biking support busses and descended for about 4 - 5 Km.? During the three hours I was walking on the road I saw two trucks, two motorcyclists, about 50 mountain bikers and about half a dozen of the biking support vehicles.? All were driving in the direction from La Paz to Coroico.? So while I was able to hitch a ride in the northbound direction (downhill), my entire return was on foot (uphill). It wasn’t nearly as steep as the Bright Angel path coming up from the bottom of the Grand Canyon but it was nevertheless an effort — compounded by the high altitude (approximately 4,000 meters) and lack of oxygen.?
The real danger on this road is the fact that it is only one lane wide and with numerous turns and no guard rails one could easily encounter oncoming traffic at the most inopportune time. Add in a little fog,? patches of ? muddy ground, a little? sleep deprivation and even some alchohol and pretty soon you can get a fairly exciting mix.
Advance alert:? Yungas Death Road XBAP.?
Anyway, here are this week’s figures from Dice for progress in job postings for C# and WPF:
WPF All of Dice: 81
Silicon Valley: 3
Blend All of Dice: 2
Silicon Valley: 0
C# All of Dice: 7346
Silicon Valley: 240
No appreciable change from a week ago.?
The following represents an interesting posting entitled “WPF Rock Star”?
Link to this Job Listing on Dice. (Warning — job listings are temporary so eventually this link will become invalid.)?
May 27, 2007
Slipped a couple of days this week as I’m down in Santiago Chile at the moment.? On Tuesday I’m meeting with some Microsoft clients regarding WPF.?
My flight stopped in Iquique on the way down from La Paz (Bolivia).? Since everyone had to deplane, I managed to take a few photos of the surrounding area.? A friend commented that these photos make the Mojave Desert look like a rain forest.? Some parts of the Atacama Desert haven’t had any rain in thousands of years.? Others get rain approximately every 6 - 7 years and then bloom for a couple of months.? But from where I stood you couldn’t see a blade of grass in any direction.?
Anyway, here are this week’s figures from Dice for progress in job postings for C# and WPF:
WPF All of Dice: 83
Silicon Valley: 4
Blend All of Dice: 1
Silicon Valley: 0
C# All of Dice: 7431
Silicon Valley: 238
All figures down just slightly from a week ago.?
May 18, 2007
Here are this week’s figures from Dice for progress in job postings for C# and WPF:
WPF All of Dice: 88
Silicon Valley: 4
Blend All of Dice: 1
Silicon Valley: 0
C# All of Dice: 7461
Silicon Valley: 250
This week shows some modest gains in both C# and WPF overall but flat in Silicon Valley. Also some modest gains this week in WPF on Monster.
