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Posted: **Thu Jun 10, 2010 2:36 am**

On the precipice of being let go from work after 6 years of their b.s.
Could happen at anytime.

Posted: **Thu Jun 10, 2010 3:21 am**

Bummers.

Sorry to hear that. It appears that all business has been hurt by this administration.

It isn't one of those jobs that Americans don't want is it?

Posted: **Thu Jun 10, 2010 4:10 am**

ha, Nope

Posted: **Thu Jun 10, 2010 12:45 pm**

That is sweet. Now you'll be able to go to school and concentrate on getting some real skills. Are you thinking of focusing on Computer Science or Information Systems?

Posted: **Thu Jun 10, 2010 2:05 pm**

Not all change is good. Hope this works out for you, Zip!

Posted: **Thu Jun 10, 2010 3:06 pm**

I'm going to go the Information systems route.

Posted: **Thu Jun 10, 2010 3:19 pm**

Good move. I got an Associate's in CS first and then my BS in Information Systems. Less math and more business focused. Good luck and keep us posted.

Posted: **Thu Jun 10, 2010 8:21 pm**

Thanks Jimmy.

P.S.
What's shopping cart software usually written in ? PHP?

Posted: **Thu Jun 10, 2010 8:31 pm**

Technically you could write it in any number of languages/platforms but PHP does get used a lot.

Things I would focus on now:
HTML and XML
Javascript
AJAX
The C family (C, C++, C#)
SQL, especially T-SQL, stored procedures, functions and triggers
ASP.NET MVC
Test Driven Development environments (NUnit, etc)

Forgive me if you already possess these skills.

Posted: **Thu Jun 10, 2010 8:47 pm**

No not really Jimmy.
I've dabbled with C, and Ruby.
Used javascript, HTML, and VBA. Kind of surprising what can be done with vba and excel.

Posted: **Thu Jun 10, 2010 9:05 pm**

Thank you for the information Jimmy.
You didn't need to do thatl but you did and I really appreciate it.

Posted: **Thu Jun 10, 2010 9:27 pm**

Best wishes.

I went through a major career change when I got laid off back in 92.
All things are possible!!

Posted: **Thu Jun 10, 2010 9:40 pm**

Hope everything works out for the best for you, Zip! You're seriously a super cool dude (I wish that I could meet all of you and hang out for a weekend and jam like crazy people...record it as well). I've dabbled with a lot of that stuff as well, but I'm a welder/steelworker/machinist by trade, so it doesn't leave much time for anything else. Other than jammin'/gardening/cutting and splitting wood/"special gardening"/ect. :wink:

Posted: **Sat Jun 12, 2010 3:38 am**

lol, a little bit of a full plate Metal D?

Posted: **Sat Jun 12, 2010 8:33 am**

Metal D wrote: (I wish that I could meet all of you and hang out for a weekend and jam like crazy people...record it as well). :

That would be extra awesome.

We need a nice venue that is somewhat in the center of the country.

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Sweet...

Sweet...