[VeejayRampay]

In the meantime in France, we can't get past that PHP/Enterprise Java illness that's been afflicting the dynamism of our net ecomomy for a decade now. Sad.

[thibaut_barrere]

Not my experience: I'm in France doing Ruby/Rails since 2004/2005, and I'm most likely booked until end of 2014...

So it's more a matter of niches and networks I believe.

[VeejayRampay]

Are you in Paris?

Maybe the market is getting bigger for Rails devs there? I left France 5 years ago and the picture was grim then, Java/PHP had a literal death grip on the market. Well, since I'm coming back I guess that's good news :)

[thibaut_barrere]

I left Paris 3 years ago, since then I've been doing all my work remotely from a very rural place (http://goo.gl/maps/UTIzF).

That said Paris is the best place to get started networking again. Be sure to go to the Paris.rb group which is very dynamic if you come back!

http://meetup.rubyparis.org/

[bambax]

> since then I've been doing all my work remotely from a very rural place

Excellent! I'm in Paris but my wife's family is in Charente (Ruffec) and I go there often. We should setup some kind of local meetup group!!

[thibaut_barrere]

Sure, would be fun :-) I don't know many technologists around so far, but a good idea!

[VeejayRampay]

Thanks a lot, will do.