Wireless Job Opportunities Abound. Mobile devices are connecting to the web and each other without wires. As WAP moves to the forefront of the next new technology, job opportunities in wireless will be hot in the Bay Area especially for WAP applications says Ray Rischpater, a Boulder Creek-based wireless consultant and author.
Positions are largely server-side content scripting positions for engineering.
Most of the WAP content is generated from a database by scripts Active Server Pages, Java Servlets, PHP, that sort of thing using content databases, so there s little Web designer work. Software engineers have to understand server scripting and WAP technology as well as HTML, HDML and WML markup languages. If some of these acronyms are Greek to you, there are several books and sites available to help. If you re really serious, the complete WAP specifications as a bound volume is available from John Wiley and Sons or for download from WAP Forum. The documentation from either company is very good, and you can teach yourself WML using their tools and documentation in just a few hours.