Hot & Useful software skills for novice converts?
gregwebs: I was thinking about this recently, and wondering if my own experiences are seriously biasing me, but Ruby On Rails does not seem that hard to learn, and is fairly well structured. You have to learn the parts of Ruby that are used for Rails. You don't need to know SQL to start off, CSS and html are pretty straightforward, depending on the website, learning and coding JavaScript could be the hardest part. There is a job market where you can work for a company (both large and small) or try to freelance. Maybe the same is true for, say, Django or some other web frameworks?