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So let us look at my last year predictions as posted on http://www.roshiley.com/blog/my-top-10-technology-predictions-2011 and how it stands today at end of 12 months.

1) HTML5, CSS3 and Ruby on Rails 3 - demand for these skills have picked up significantly. There is a severe shortage of skilled Ruby on Rails developers globally.

Drupal CMS is one of the most popular Open Source CMS in market today. Even though there is a push to promote Drupal as Enterprise CMS, there is an equally disturbing story of large brands switching out of Drupal. Small and medium sites and corporate sites still love running Drupal.

Here is a partial list of sites that were on Drupal but moved out. ( This is partial list given to me by interns and I haven't checked all)

For years I have been working on this idea of having an incubator. Rather than have 1 large company and grow it to thousands of employees where it later becomes a challenge to motivate and align everyone in common direction, I had a vision to have 100s of small companies with individual entrepreneurs leading these and with me having minority stake in each of these.

When you have an employee badmouthing against company - most companies will immediately fire that person. I had luxury of having such a resource in my firm doing this for quite some time. I didn't put him out but tried to help thinking one day he will change. In few cases he acted as messenger between controversial ex-employees and our HR where he carried document exchanges for tax purposes for them. I keep saying in my speeches, you become whom you get influenced by. When you surround yourself with negative thinkers, that is what you become.