Java or .Net, the red pill or the blue pill :-) You can use uniobjects to connect to your existing data and actually deliver some business value as you learn things. Write some web based query screens that you can roll out to the existing userbase. They won't care how rough it is, it will blow their minds.
You will be much more marketable with either one on your resume, as opposed to pick alone. Once you have some success with java (you will choose wisely, I hope), learning a relational database will be a big uplift. Oracle or SQL Server (again with the red or blue pill). Or you can go open source with mysql or postgres. The latter doesn't get the press it deserves. Pull out some of the really important data from unidata every month and stick it in a relational database. Don't worry too much about star schemas and what not, just grab the data on a regular basis. It's amazing how useful this turns out to be at answering really hard questions. Ian -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Al DeWitt Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 9:16 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [U2] What Next? For the last 14 years or so I have been doing programming support and light DBA work; first in Universe (Prime Information) and now in Unidata (Pick). I'm basically a one-trick pony (UniBasic and System Builder) because my goal has always been to move into a business analyst role, but that has never worked out (I'm too IT). Last fall I decided to stop trying to pursue that and stay in what I'm doing. So now I need to decide what I should invest my educational dollars. I want to stay in application development and support because I like better than techie stuff. So what would you suggest I begin learning that would keep me reasonably employable in the future? Thanks. Albert DeWitt Sr. Programmer Analyst Stylmark, Inc. ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ----------------------------------------- IMPORTANT NOTICE: This message is intended only for the addressee and may contain confidential, privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient, you may not use, copy or disclose any information contained in the message. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender by reply e-mail and delete the message. ------- u2-users mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/
