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The economy may be getting better, but unemployment is still high. Companies slashed budgets and personnel last year, but as the economy begins to recover, the creation of jobs is not falling in line.

The lack of new jobs continues to be an issue even for San Francisco Bay Area tech companies. So, how are unemployed developers and technologists supposed to find work? One solution: learn new skills.

Drupal is a free software package that makes publishing and managing social content on the Web easy. It's been downloaded more than 2 million times to date. And though Drupal has been around for more than nine years, it's become more credible over the last several due in part to a dedicated community and the fact that high-profile government Web sites such as whitehouse.gov and corporations like Warner Bros. records have adopted the open-source content-management system.