Good point. I'll dig into it. > >You should make the time to download the sample apps from www.asp.net and >muck with them. You can use the free MS ASP.Net IDE (Web Matrix or Studio >Express???) > >Its worth the time invested, even if it's only an hour or two a nite and >weekends. > >Duane > > > > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Russel Madere [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2006 11:28 AM >To: CF-Community >Subject: Re: Making the jump > >>Sorry to hear that... how long is the commute? > >53 miles which on a good day takes an hour. Throw in a breakdown or >accident, double that. If I leave 5 minutes later than usual, add 15 >minutes. The worse part is the gas price. I only get 16 miles to the >gallon in my truck and the wife's car has 200,000 miles. > >>.NET is the way to go for job security. > >I'm seeing that, but lack the time and cash to learn it. I'm hoping to find >an employer who will send me to some training. > >>What kind of skills do you have in networking? > >I have always been an IS generalist with networking and PC support. I have >done LAN/WAN design, can subnet with a little refreshing, configured and >administer firewalls (FW-1 and a Linux packet filtering thing I wrote in >PERL 10 years ago) and can run Cat-5 cables. I just don't know how to punch >down cables in a block. I knew Cisco IOS on a Catalyst 2924 switch, but no >router work. I have done desktop support as an ancillary job requirement >for 8 years now and directly for 5 years before that. > >> What about programming >>experience besides CF? > >I'de be an excellent FORTRAN programmer with a little refresher time. I can >also handle COBOL, but never programmed directly in it. I haven't touched >either in 10 years. I know ASP Classic to get by and PHP to muddle my way >through. It's all procedural, so I can handle it. I can muddle through >PERL and have created a few applications by modifying someone else's code to >fit my needs. I also wrote C-Shell scripts many years ago. > >I am self taught on some minor C++ and Java. I just haven't done much UI >design since most of my non-web proramming work was on mainframes and >computers (not PCs the big guys). > >> >>- Matt
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