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What is the next skill to learn?

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  • N NormDroid

    These young 'uns are scared, they've boarded the IT train and didn't release how fast it went. Well I've seen a fare few technologies come and go and it's an art backing the right trend. Nowdays I sit back and watch people flap around trying to guess if microsoft will feed them the next 10 years.

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    Alberto Bar Noy
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    Norm .net wrote:

    trying to guess if microsoft will feed them the next 10 years.

    And there is the problem. They don't try to feed themselves. They want to be fed

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      Norm .net wrote:

      trying to guess if microsoft will feed them the next 10 years.

      And there is the problem. They don't try to feed themselves. They want to be fed

      Alberto Bar-Noy --------------- “The city’s central computer told you? R2D2, you know better than to trust a strange computer!” (C3PO)

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      NormDroid
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      Cue the questions and answers forum ;)

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      • R realJSOP

        Tomz_KV wrote:

        What will happen to the .NET development communities?

        .Net programmers will start cohabitating and form a mutual support network. Because of the stigma attached to clinging to old proven technologies, they will be forced into a lifestyle described as "archaic", where their mud huts have no electricity or running water, and they won't be able to get cell phone coverage. They'll be forced to grow their own food and hunt illegally, and use cash for any day-to-day puyrchases. Eventually, the US governbment will notice that they hunt and grow their own food, and use cash, andwill immediately label them as a potential terrorist organisation. Nish will also write a book about how .Net and Silverlight were okay "in their day", but that HTML5 and javascript will be the technology of the future. Of course, not being one to jump immediately on "technologies of the future", I'll probably be using .Net and Silverlight for the next 10 years or so. By then, Nish will have written another book about the discovery of remains of an ancient .Net programmer encampment in the wilds of southern Canadia.

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        Wayne Gaylard
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        John Simmons / outlaw programmer wrote:

        lifestyle described as "archaic", where their mud huts have no electricity or running water, and they won't be able to get cell phone coverage

        So life for me in Zim won't change at all then. :laugh:

        When I was a coder, we worked on algorithms. Today, we memorize APIs for countless libraries — those libraries have the algorithms - Eric Allman

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        • T Tomz_KV

          I heard/read that SilverLight has no future and .NET as a whole is loosing its importance in Windows8. What will happen to the .NET development communities? what is the next skill to learn?

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          CPallini
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          That's false. Or, at least, not completely true. :)

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            That's false. Or, at least, not completely true. :)

            If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
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            NormDroid
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            Fuzzy logic.

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            • N NormDroid

              Fuzzy logic.

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              CPallini
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              Just remove Silverlight to get crisp values. :)

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              • T Tomz_KV

                I heard/read that SilverLight has no future and .NET as a whole is loosing its importance in Windows8. What will happen to the .NET development communities? what is the next skill to learn?

                TOMZ_KV

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                PIEBALDconsult
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                Learn something unique, find a niche, don't do what everybody else does.

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                • P PIEBALDconsult

                  Learn something unique, find a niche, don't do what everybody else does.

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                  Tomz_KV
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                  It is easy to say than to do. Unique sometimes could mean "not marketable".

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                  • T Tomz_KV

                    I heard/read that SilverLight has no future and .NET as a whole is loosing its importance in Windows8. What will happen to the .NET development communities? what is the next skill to learn?

                    TOMZ_KV

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                    0bx
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                    Turbo Pascal.

                    Giraffes are not real.

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                    • 0 0bx

                      Turbo Pascal.

                      Giraffes are not real.

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                      Tomz_KV
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                      Do you really mean that?

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                        That's false. Or, at least, not completely true. :)

                        If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
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                        Tomz_KV
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                        It is quite certain that SilverLight will be discontinued.

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                        • L Lost User

                          Burger flipping and asking wether or not someone wants fries.

                          And from the clouds a mighty voice spoke:
                          "Smile and be happy, for it could come worse!"

                          And I smiled and was happy
                          And it came worse.

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                          Tomz_KV
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                          One burger flipping position could attract a handful of .NET Programmers.

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                          • T Tomz_KV

                            It is quite certain that SilverLight will be discontinued.

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                            NormDroid
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                            Don't hold your breathe

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                              Don't hold your breathe

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                              Tomz_KV
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                              I did not. ;P

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                              • T Tomz_KV

                                Do you really mean that?

                                TOMZ_KV

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                                NormDroid
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                                :doh:

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                                • T Tomz_KV

                                  I heard/read that SilverLight has no future and .NET as a whole is loosing its importance in Windows8. What will happen to the .NET development communities? what is the next skill to learn?

                                  TOMZ_KV

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                                  Single Step Debugger
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                                  It depends of what skill set you already have. If you’re asking for technologies/languages that are not going to die any time soon and are widely used, here are a couple: C++/COM, Transact/PL SQL

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                                  • T Tomz_KV

                                    I heard/read that SilverLight has no future and .NET as a whole is loosing its importance in Windows8. What will happen to the .NET development communities? what is the next skill to learn?

                                    TOMZ_KV

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                                    Johnny J
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                                    Cobol is still going strong... :-D

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                                    • L Lost User

                                      No. The speed of the signals in the nerves probably was too slow for those large animals. Even coordinating the information that it is about to walk someplace with the rear legs required some extraordinary adaptations. When mortally wounded, a dinosaur probably went on without noticing until it could not go on anymore and dropped dead.

                                      And from the clouds a mighty voice spoke:
                                      "Smile and be happy, for it could come worse!"

                                      And I smiled and was happy
                                      And it came worse.

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                                      Rob Grainger
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                                      Like the proverbial chickens it turns out they're related to? Seriously, when there's a headless dinosaur running around, time to take cover.

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                                      • R Rob Grainger

                                        Like the proverbial chickens it turns out they're related to? Seriously, when there's a headless dinosaur running around, time to take cover.

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                                        Lost User
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                                        Hmmm, it will probably also taste very much like chicken. Kentucky Fried Dinosaur.... :)

                                        And from the clouds a mighty voice spoke:
                                        "Smile and be happy, for it could come worse!"

                                        And I smiled and was happy
                                        And it came worse.

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                                          No. The speed of the signals in the nerves probably was too slow for those large animals. Even coordinating the information that it is about to walk someplace with the rear legs required some extraordinary adaptations. When mortally wounded, a dinosaur probably went on without noticing until it could not go on anymore and dropped dead.

                                          And from the clouds a mighty voice spoke:
                                          "Smile and be happy, for it could come worse!"

                                          And I smiled and was happy
                                          And it came worse.

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                                          Smithers Jones
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                                          Damnit, I never thought about that. Interesting thought. Have a 5.

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