Kenneth Ismert
kismert at gmail.com
Tue Jan 31 12:38:02 CST 2012
> > Jim Dettman > > ... plus everything is heading to the web anyway, which is something I've totally avoid to date (gonna pay big time for that decision). > Not necessarily. You've actually managed to avoid a LOT of drudgery in the old web way of doing things (ASP.NET WinForms, browser Incompatibility, poor Javascript performance, creaky, obsolete PHP hosting...) You can now safely ignore that, and learn the cool, new web stuff: * HTML5 * CSS3 * MVC frameworks (good choices exist for .NET and open-source platforms) * Javascript frameworks (JQuery is well-supported by MVC frameworks) * Easy-to-sync, fault-tolerant, scalable hosting solutions (for PHP, see Pagoda Box ( http://newpagodabox.com/ ) and PHP Fog ( https://www.phpfog.com/ ) This range of new technology makes it much easier to target web apps for mobile devices. Plus, there are cool new platforms for Mobile, including Xamarin ( http://xamarin.com/ ), which is a .NET / Mono / Visual Studio platform for developing Android and iOS applications. So, you can view your procrastination as strategically waiting for a time like now to jump into cool new things. -Ken