Woohoo! I just discovered today that Selenium, the nifty web testing tool, now has its own page on Wikipedia. Okay, since anyone can edit Wikipedia, that’s not much of an accomplishment. But I promise I didn’t make the edit myself. I am amused, though, that Selenium (the software) is relevant enough now to warrant a disambiguation page just in case people get confused that Selenium is also element 34 in the periodic table. :-) I’m not sure if this means we’ve made a “dent in the universe“, as Steve Jobs once quipped. But heh, it’s a start.

In other news, I smiled a few weeks ago when I saw Django’s Adrian Holovaty suggest that using Django is great for getting PAID to program. I can make a similar claim that you can get paid for using Selenium, too. Monster.com shows 11 hits and dice.com has 7 hits for the keyword “selenium”. Some well known companies are looking for Selenium experience, including BEA, Ticketmaster, Nokia, and Lucas Group. Of course, Selenium fans are welcome to apply for a QA/tester position at ThoughtWorks anytime, as well.

Alas, “Django” gets zero hits on both Monster and Dice, while “Ruby and Rails” gets 52 and 45 hits, respectively. I expect a few catcalls from the various loud thinking rubyists in the world about that statistic. Zope fans can be happy to note that “zope” gets 18 hits on Monster, 9 on Dice. While Turbogears gets zero on Monster and 2 on Dice. Since Django is my favorite of the bunch, I hope those stats change soon. I know Django jobs are out there, they’re just not on Monster and Dice… yet.