JSON is the next REQUIRED skill
12 January 2007Kevin Hackman:
As a developer, you now need a new set of baseline skills to keep up amidst a plethora of XML, SOAP, JSON, and other types of information services that are being exposed, consumed, mashed up, and processed in new and innovative ways
Joel on Software:
I believe there are a few core competencies everyone needs as a base:
3. Browser scripting & markup (Javascript, HTML, CSS, DHTML, AJAX, JSON).
Feed-back on JavaPolis on 2006
The thing that hit me most this year is how few Java code that we’ve seen. It’s a fact now that Java is merging more and more with other technologies and programming languages. To name but a few hot ones: Ajax, Flex, Ruby, JSON, Python, REST…
Don Box
The things I love about JSON (vs. XML) are you can trivially distinguish numbers from text-that-looks-like-a-number and more importantly, you can represent strings that contain control characters without resorting to base64 encoding. I also don’t miss the ambiguity of significant vs. insignificant whitespace. With JSON, it’s obvious from the data. With XML, you need a DTD or schema to know for sure.
Just because someone can type well formed structure in notepad does NOT mean they know XML! This is the same for JSON. Do you know how to write schema for JSON? What about conflicting namespaces or escaping special characters? How do you specify record order or sorting?
Check out these trends for JSON:
http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=json
http://www.google.com/trends?q=json&ctab=0&geo=all&date=all
One Response to “JSON is the next REQUIRED skill”
January 15th, 2007 at 12:32 am
Thanks for the mention of Indeed.com. Using Indeed’s salary search tool, developer jobs mentioning JSON pay on average $11,000 more than developer jobs without JSON.
http://www.indeed.com/salary?q1=developer+json&q2=developer+-json