200,000 workers to be retrenched in Malaysia

The economy slowdown not hitting Malaysia pretty bad. According to official press release by Human Resource Department in Malaysia, almost 200,000 workers will lost their jobs. Most of then came from manufacturing sectors.

So how to prepare yourself as a web programmer or web designer ?

For Programmers

• 1. Equip yourself with latest development tool
• 2. Intstead of know 1 programming language, extends to many such as PHP,Ruby,Python
• 3. Try to minimize development cycle, this can be achieved if you're using RAD Frameworks like CakePHP, Code Igniter, Symfony or Ruby On Rails.
• 4. Learn to write Ajax functions using Framework such as Jquery,MooTool and ScriptAculosU