Can you suggest any resources (magazines, web sties etc.) to follow current state of software development market in Europe?
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I can tell you without any magazines that on the mainland Europe the development market is dull and seemingly dead.
I hear of no interesting projects, of no interesting developments. If you browse through job openings, you can hardly find anything worth looking at.
No, there are of course meetings and conferences but they are rare and mostly sound like an echo of what's going on in US.
Should anybody be able to show (and prove) that this is not the case, I would greatly appreciate it.
(A small off topic to answer a comment.)
Regarding job openings. A significant portion of listings is a plain fake - companies are trying to look like growing and expanding to their stakeholders and partners and to create that image they publish announcements, process applications, conduct interviews (really) but do not take anybody.
If we're talking about Germany where I currently reside, then for the market that is of interest to me (web, Microsoft technology stack (ASP.NET etc.)) for the previous year (2008) I could estimate the amount of real openings at about 4-5 vacant positions per month country-wide (inhouse positions, no consulting, big city areas only, not counting small villages in the middle of nowhere). The neighboring countries even less. This time (middle-end 2009) I estimate it to something like 0-1 openings for the same criteria.
Judging from that information source, you can hardly speak of any development market. At least, not with my understanding of the word.
Developer Art
2009-10-01 08:22:37
Unfortunately you're quite right. Nothing very exciting in software dev.
Julien Tartarin
2009-10-01 08:30:12
So it seems it is better to glance at job advertisements to have a better clue.
burak ozdogan
2009-10-05 07:25:12
@Developer Art: You write that there are only about 4-5 vacant positions pr. month in Germany... Do you mean jobs that are worth having or just jobs with web on an MS stack? I think there are more than 5 of those jobs in Denmark every month, but few I would want.
Jørgen Fogh
2009-10-05 08:08:32
I meant just web development jobs with clear focus on MS stack. Of course, they're not all interesting and I myself wouldn't want to sign up with each one.
Developer Art
2009-10-05 08:43:04
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This is just one way of doing it. You can check freelancing sites, to get information about what kind of Jobs are hot.
You can check oDesk Trends. oDesk is one of the good site where people can post Software jobs and find providers. By analyzing oDesk trends carefully you can find which technology or platform is currently hot among clients.
Mahin
2009-10-05 07:55:39
Is this that same system I heard of where you have to install spy software on your computer to be monitored for your activity, whether you're typing something or maybe went to the bedroom?
Developer Art
2009-10-05 07:59:03
@Developer Art : To check oDesk Trends, you do not need any thing to install. But if you want to work with oDesk as Provider on Hourly rate basis, you should install oDesk team setup. It takes snaps of your screen and store it in your ongoing job. This is used to make sure to Job poster that the programmer who is charging him on hourly rate actually is actually working on the project. If you are going with Fixed rate Job, you do not need the oDesk Team setup.
Mahin
2009-10-05 08:16:48