have you looked at ServiceStack Server Events. as an alternative to SignalR?

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You mentioned that you are working in horticulture. That's flowers right? ;P I would suggest look at your current situation, what can you see as a 'real world' problem within what you are familiar with. People love to collect and retrieve information, for example, if you are still writing things on paper, create a simple but small application (web page, console app, whatever) that makes collecting that information easier. It is much easier to apply ideas to what you are familiar with, it doesn't matter if there are 10000 applications/systems that does what you want to do, just start with something that you can associate with to make your problem solving and learning easier. After all programming is not writing squiggly packets or text, it's finding a solution to a problem. People using your application/website/system aren't interested in if it was written in .Net, Java, Python, Ruby, C++ or any of the 1000+ programming languages available today, they want something that makes their life easier. You mentioned you are learning Python, great! I started with plain old Turbo Pascal, then C, then VB, then C#, VB.net, Ruby, Pythion.... javascript...etc.. and so on.. :wtf: The point is there is no real answer to "Which way to go" or what programming language to pick, they do have their different uses, but for the most part they do the same thing. (if, else, when, for, foreach, a=b+c etc..) You are also guaranteed that you will learn more then one way of doing things, you will learn how to collect data, save data, retrieve data and present data, all in different languages. :-D Look at what you think is a problem, try and make life easier using whatever language you find more rewarding. Once you can show something to a prospective employee where you took a simple idea and turned it into a simple solution it almost carries more weight than having 10 diplomas or degrees and no work to show for it! Happy learning and happy coding! :)

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go to www.knowledgecore.com its a complete solution. :) This is from Portfolio, programme, project , risk, issue, change, defects, resource all in one management system. I should know as i'm one of the programmers. Our latest addition is Test management, and the list just keeps on growing. This also lets you see what the impact of any element in your system has on another element or elements. try and get hold of us by using the website. oh and the best of all, its not expensive, and you only purchase the parts you need, you don't have to buy the whole thing.

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modified on Friday, November 7, 2008 4:35 AM