Starting fresh

I am finally blogging.

Feeling better connected already.

Thus begins a new phase for me.
Baby has arrived
Starting an Aquaponics setup.
VFP is done, now the challenge begins to evolve the most complex software project I have ever been involved with over to .Net. The question is how to continue with the current products but also have them blending .Net so that eventually it will all be .Net. That will be the first challenge.

C# will be the language of choice. Check out C# vs VB jobs in Canberra on seek.com.au. 110 vs 31 (as of the last time I checked). Apart from that though the only language that will work on the micro Framework platform is C#. The micro framework is targetted at devices like this one:
http://www.dominion.net.au/index.php?a=&b=&c=&d=DC-ME-MF which is the direction I am going for control of the Aquaponics stuff.
I actually started relearning C++/CLI only to discover that it is not supported on the compact framework. Besides I have to say, and the gurus will disagree, but the MS implementation of C++ is becoming a dogs breakfast. I am sure that there are plenty of valid reasons for it being they way it is but learning it now is just too hard. Just trying to figure out how strings are represented on different platforms has lead me to believe that life is too short for large scale C++ development.
VB is fine but I really prefer a more compact language. So C# it is.
So I am going to begin retraining myself. I am geographically remote from learning institutions and I have serious doubts that they can keep up with technology anyway. So I am going to train myself and here is where the results will go.