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To anyone out there pondering on whether or not they should go for a job in Web development:

GO FOR IT.

From what I continuously hear, in both the UK and the US there is a distinct lack of IT workers, especially systems developers, right through to every other IT field. Services and companies continue to require more developers, but there are less graduating from Universities or teaching themselves. And the money is pretty good too...

Has anyone else found this to be the case? What is it like for other countries?

So what are these features and how can LinkedIn members make use of these to their advantage?

Hi All

I will be starting development of Software as a Service (SaaS) application early in the new year and I am trying to decide on the architecture and frameworks at the moment.

Currently I'm thinking of using NHibernate as an ORM (Object Relational Mapper) and I see that it has support for mysql. I've got zero experience with mysql because I'm a sql server guy but if NHibernate handles the data access layer I'm thinking it would be a lot cheaper to go with mysql.

Anybody had experience with NHibernate with mysql? How about just NHibernate - is it easily maintainable once the system goes live?

I know Linq to sql is out now but I've heard its a lightweight framework - any positive or negative feedback (yeah I'm looking at you Catalyst )?