Couldn't agree more with ed here.

I recently had the opportunity to do some .net work and it wasn't that

difficult once you found a source to answer a few questions and pinter.com

has a nice book on vfp to .net, but as ed said, most of the people I've seen

doing it don't have a combined 1 year experience between all of them and

when you mention things like a switch or whatever, they look at you like

you're from china or india and speaking of india or china, have you ever

looked at the billed rates on some of those short term project boards

(forget the name of them at the moment), but we're talking a few dollars per

hour.

But the biggest thing that bothers me with .net is that it is more about

learning their framework then it is about developing solutions, which is

fine, but what happens when their next whizbang widget generator framework

comes out?

Based on some of the things I've read here, if I can ever get enough work

going to allow me to focus, I'm seriously thinking about the dabo/python

stuff that ed has been talking about and now that oracle has bought out sun,

I see mysql cost's going way up to support his yachting habit, slowly at

first but dramatically later on.

-----Original Message-----

From: profox-bounces@leafe.com [mailto:profox-bounces@leafe.com] On Behalf

Of Ed Leafe

Sent: Saturday, February 27, 2010 8:18 AM

To: ProFox Email List

Subject: Re: Looking for VFP Work/NYC Metro Area

On Feb 26, 2010, at 5:57 PM, Kurt Wendt wrote:

> The truth if - in the NYC Metro area - it seems that VFP type positions

> have dwindled greatly over the past 10 years or so. Now to the point

> that I almost never see any - although some are in the areas of Conn &

> NJ. I live on LI - and I work in Manhattan - although I wouldn't mind

> traveling to NJ or CT on a part time basis or as a consultant.

And that's not going to change, so I see two choices for you here:

hope that you manage to land a long-term gig maintaining an existing Fox

app, or add a new tool (or tools) to your toolbox. And before anyone thinks

that this is going to turn into a plug for Dabo, it isn't: I think that the

number of desktop app positions in general is plummeting, so your best bet

is to learn how to create web apps.

In the web app arena, there are two main choices: stick with the

Microsoft family of products, or learn "something else". If you stick with

Microsoft products, you'll probably feel more at home initially, as

everything is done with the sort of visual tools you're used to working

with. You'll also be competing for work with a bunch of young

whippersnappers who'll work for next to nothing, since that's the skillset

they bring to the job.

I would recommend one of the Python web frameworks as an

alternative. Look for jobs that want Django or Pylons or Web2Py experience

to see what the demand is; LinkedIn and the Python Jobs Board

(http://www.python.org/community/jobs/) are good places to start. Start

playing with them to find which ones are easier to grasp, and to get a

general feel for the approach to developing web apps.

-- Ed Leafe

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