function alarm_bells() { alert("Javascript Hater!"); }

Powershell, Javascript - very much depends on what needs doing

From a technology perspective, I think you should decide based on which project is the more interesting, rewarding etc. I guess you are concerned that your C++ skills might isolate you from future prospects. You can easily compensate for that, jump into an Opensource project for the other skill and start contributing code. From a career perspective, you really need to give consideration to security of employment. The rate of failure for startups is really high so I would research the employers pretty thoroughly - these are difficuly times and personally I would give a lot of weight to the security factor. Hope it helps :)

+1 cant reproduce either

+1 on Web Developer Add-on, great tool. Firebug, dont leave home without it :) I would highly recommend, if you are doing any jQuery work, getting jQuerify and SelectorGadget add ons as well

Hi Gen Just wondering if you should consider doing a course (online or onsite) in web development, maybe a short introductory course which would give you a feel for whats involved. There are also a lot of resources available on youtube, vimeo etc which would help you do a basic website quickly - again just to get a feel for whats involved. Best of luck

Thanks again, both for editing the post and your kind remarks. Good luck to you too :)

thanks for that :)

Thanks again, I'll live with the points hit :)

Great, thanks for the suggestion. I'd remove the post from here if it was possible (apparently you cant if comments have been posted) Cynicism abounds here, I guess people have had bad experiences

such as?

its not an ad !

Appreciate that, its not an ad but hard to word with making it sound like one I'll agree. We are just looking to get peoples experience in person or anonymously (once its genuine), whatever suits

Absolutely not, I've been a member here for 6-7 years and never looked to do so, you can check. Its a genuine request for assistance if anyone would like to help

Moved to a Forum (still deciding which is the most appropriate forum)

modified on Tuesday, June 14, 2011 3:11 PM

And you try and tell the young people of today that ..... they won't believe you ^

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Firebug

Great list. If I could expand on 4) Simple Samples. I would comprehensive simple samples. Break down the API into it the chunks of functionality it provides and give a simple sample for each. Make sure it compiles !! Tell me if it will fit my environment early on, I dont want to read through a ton of documentation to find that its only compatible with, for example, .Net framework 2.0

One consideration, I believe, is the intended target audience for the project you mentioned. Its an important consideration, if the intended audience is the general public then you should consider the current level of users who have installed the Silverlight plugin - last time I checked (which is about a year ago), Silverlight penetration was approx 53%. It seemed also that many were domestic or private users who had installed Silverlight and that there were issues with adoption in some corporate environments as they are concerned about what resides behind their firewall. I like Silverlight I must admit and found the Vids, Labs etc on Silverlight.net[^] really useful