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Interesting, thanks. Just been talking to some people locally who said $65-$80 would be a likely range for NYC - so not too far off your estimate for FL. Any i

Interesting, thanks. Just been talking to some people locally who said $65-$80 would be a likely range for NYC - so not too far off your estimate for FL. Any idea if the rate would be better at a national agency (KForce/Manpower/etc) or a local one? Curious what your experience is since we seem to have a similar background.

kls 16y ago
I think their is a link to my linked-in profile in my HN profile which covers some of my experience. But to keep it brief, I was doing CGI/C and CGI/Perl on the web then around 94-95, the green team dropped Java on the net (I think it was a .8 release) I remember I downloaded it and never got around to playing with it, by the time I did it was at the .9 release. At that point and with Netscape's announcement, we all thought Java was going to be what Javascript/CSS/HTML is now. Anyways, I rode it through its evolution to a server side language and I ended up doing a lot of Java/VRML work. I was doing computer based training around 1.2 and was doing Java and VRML work for a training and simulation company. Anyway, after that, my tenure becomes pretty standard. with the JEE and Apache web stuff. As soon as a viable alternative existed for web front end though I bailed on Java for web as fast as I could. I always felt that we went too far towards Sun and Oracles vision of the dumb terminal, and that we set the web back a decade from where it could be, we are just now starting to see what the web could have been if we would not have been so dogmatic about server side frameworks and gave Javascript a little more love sooner. It seems that when Java on the client died so did any effort to place UI logic in the UI. Anyways, I am totally side tracking, but my point was, my background besides some forays into simulation and AI, is pretty similar to other JEE / Web developers who have been in it from the mid to late 90's.

kls 16y ago

I think their is a link to my linked-in profile in my HN profile which covers some of my experience. But to keep it brief, I was doing CGI/C and CGI/Perl on the web then around 94-95, the green team dropped Java on the net (I think it was a .8 release) I remember I downloaded it and never got around to playing with it, by the time I did it was at the .9 release. At that point and with Netscape's announcement, we all thought Java was going to be what Javascript/CSS/HTML is now. Anyways, I rode it through its evolution to a server side language and I ended up doing a lot of Java/VRML work. I was doing computer based training around 1.2 and was doing Java and VRML work for a training and simulation company. Anyway, after that, my tenure becomes pretty standard. with the JEE and Apache web stuff. As soon as a viable alternative existed for web front end though I bailed on Java for web as fast as I could. I always felt that we went too far towards Sun and Oracles vision of the dumb terminal, and that we set the web back a decade from where it could be, we are just now starting to see what the web could have been if we would not have been so dogmatic about server side frameworks and gave Javascript a little more love sooner. It seems that when Java on the client died so did any effort to place UI logic in the UI. Anyways, I am totally side tracking, but my point was, my background besides some forays into simulation and AI, is pretty similar to other JEE / Web developers who have been in it from the mid to late 90's.