[Chicago] Census?

[Adam Jenkins]

On 9/26/07, Brian Sobolak <sobolak at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 9/26/07, Chris McAvoy <chris.mcavoy at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Any thoughts on how to quantify these sorts of questions is welcome
> >
>
> Ask Craig and his list?
>
> Obtained by entering the search terms below on chicago.craigslist.org
>
> Django:  5 results
> Python:  45 results
> PHP: 360 results.  (Apparently Playboy needs PHP developers.)
> Ruby: 55 results
> Rails: 29 results.
>
> Obviously there is a lot of crap in the numbers.


You'll find that craigstlist isn't returning php jobs, it's returning any
string with "php" in it. A ton of those results will get you
"submit_resume.php"


Quite a few of the
> PHP listings are crap ("Teach English in South Korea!" probably
> doesn't have much to do PHP).  And some jobs will be double-counted.
>
> Nevertheless, I'd argue that they are a rough description of the
> answer I'd give to your questions.  Ruby/Rails seems to be popular
> more with web designers who want easy dynamic sites and this has a bit
> more traction than Python does. YMMV.
>
> brian
>
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