> What makes a hirable, good web-programmer these days - one who can manage AND do the nitty gritty?

My advice would be to focus less on the technologies than the person. Anyone can chuck TLAs* onto their resume! Look at the tech skills they've got, sure, but also think about how they communicate, how motivated they are and so on. Most reasonably competant tech people can pick up a language or technology in a couple of months - but skills like 'managing' and 'doing the nitty-gritty' are rather less easy to develop.

Having said that Rails (http://rubyonrails.org ) and AJAX are very cool things for someone to know ;)


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