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Very practical advice. Up-voted.
Cheers,
Mike Fidler
"I intend to live forever - so far, so good." Steven Wright
"I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met." Also Steven Wright
"I'm addicted to placebos. I could quit, but it wouldn't matter." Steven Wright yet again.
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Great advice here. Having been in a similar situation and wanting to move on to newer technologies one of the things I did was to find a job that had a mix of the old and new. Then while working (and hopefully upgrading) the old I had access to the code written in the new technologies to learn from.
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The web development field is saturated with posers.
I specialize in desktop, back-end and web services; leaving the rest to those that don't know the difference between XML, XAML and HTML. (And there are a lot ... I also avoid IOS, Android unless it's using some C# cross-development tool).
My tools of choice are C#, WPF, SQL Server, WCF and EF (and anybody that says to avoid EF does not know what they are talking about; or they like bit-fiddling). I'm also not a slave to MVVM; developing highly interactive custom desktop apps that do not necessarily benefit from a "one size" mentality.
The web development arena reminds me of PC development in the 90's; lots of 3rd party shite that was needed to complete one's toolkit. With the MS stack I referred to, I can pretty well do anything.
(I was "outsourced").
I "remade" myself by taking on freelancer jobs that would stretch my new found knowledge (C# walkthroughs and "how-to"): it was like getting paid while learning. (Just don't blow the project).
I continue to freelance using my tools of choice, with the occasional 3rd party graphics library. My current gig is running into it's 3rd year with no definite end in sight .... Desktop (kiosk) development.
Every freelance project I worked on always required me to learn something new; even when the project on the surface seems trivial. You can add it to your "experiences".
Every time someone comes here asking for "the codez", they are told to "go to a freelancer site". As a "seller", these sites are worth checking out and experiencing the current state of "software development" (LOLZ). Check out the forums (beefs and bouquets). Once you figure out how to play it, it can be fun and profitable.
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I'm pretty much done with my first complete MVC app. It allows the user to take a survey.
It's not nearly as interesting as the WPF desktop application that allows you to construct the survey, and I hated every minute of the development time.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Can we see it?
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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He works for the government. He could show you, but then he'd have to kill you.
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Oh right, I forgot.
Redacted!
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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I think it's the paperwork involved in seeing it that would kill you.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Not quite, you have to sign something agreeing to kill yourself. 
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I know the feeling. The Razor view engine has grown on me but the need to write controller actions and views to handle all the separate things that can happen to a 'Model' gets old pretty quick. And don't get me started on the Entity Framework. I started out in the database world before graduating to application programming and the things that the Entity Framework does makes my eyes bleed.
if (Object.DividedByZero == true) { Universe.Implode(); }
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OK, I know it's Fox News, and you can't trust anything they say.
But...Fire on the Sun[^]
O...kay...so now we know...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Fox just wants your money? Really? What's your point? So does everyone else!
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Quote: OK, I know it's Fox News, and you can't trust anything they say.
Come on it is on the WWW, it can't be wrong. Similar with Wiki, it does tell us "the only truth"
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Quote: Come on it is on the WWW, it can't be wrong
Bruno,
If you believe that, you have reached the end of the Internet. Go back to the start.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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There was no icon for sarcasm/ironie  Now I'm on googling (in wiki??) to find the difference between sarcasm and ironie. Aah, great, "Duden" does also explain it. Let's see who copied whom
Bruno
modified 19-Jan-21 21:04pm.
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Strictly speaking, from a "not getting the joke geeky perspective" - the sun is not on fire but rather is fusing nuclei which is what gives the impression of fire.
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Quote: the sun is not on fire
Is it not just a different kind of fire?
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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Cornelius Henning wrote: a different kind of fire
Like this?[^]
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Maybe, but not quite what I had in mind.
Get me coffee and no one gets hurt!
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No, it isn't. How deep down the rabbit hole do you want to go?
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Idiots. No, that is not fire on the sun. It's called "plasma".
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Hey Griff, who do you listen to for news? Just curious. All of the outlets filter according to their philosophies.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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The voices in my head, obviously.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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