I get the impression that he may not have the academic background. Back when the web was mostly new to businesses and something a lot of seasoned programmers w

I get the impression that he may not have the academic background. Back when the web was mostly new to businesses and something a lot of seasoned programmers weren't willing to give up their cushy jobs as enterprise developers to do, it attracted a lot of people without the CS degrees. The problem I think is that most of those folks are finding it more difficult now to find similar jobs because the people entering the work force to be web developers already have the degrees and web development is what young people with the CS degrees want to get into now. So the bar is naturally higher because of that. It's unfortunate to think probably an entire generation in their 30's were finding work easily without a ton of experience, so the market never reinforced the fact that they didn't know enough about what they were doing and were going to start having trouble finding work because of it in their 40's.