Re: Windows 8: how quickly will it be adopted?

You know... you shouldn't "quit" any programming language or technology for
the sake of another... just be picky and learn what makes sense, avoid hype
and stuff you have the experience to say it's crap before it even sees the
light and gets released. Learn the core of anything so that you can
implement whatever you want with it.

Cheers,
Stoyan

On Thu, Aug 30, 2012 at 8:42 PM, John Elliot <[email protected]> wrote:

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> On 2012-08-31 00:27, Philo Janus wrote:
> > I'm pretty sure Azure is a collection of WordPress plugins... [just
> kidding]
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> I don't even know what Azure is, but I'm pretty sure your comment is
> funny. :)
>
> I've been messing around with WordPress plugins lately and it's such a
> mess. What I wanted to do was to create a WordPress plugin that made a
> WordPress website look like a MediaWiki wiki with the Vector skin so
> that you could transition between a wiki and a blog and still have the
> sense that you were on a cohesive website. But the reality was that this
> couldn't easily be done, because WordPress features deliver a certain
> type of HTML5 content that can't easily be customised with MediaWiki
> CSS. I thought it would be fairly straight forward, but making WordPress
> look like MediaWiki Vector is a nightmare and I had the good sense to
> abandon the project very quickly.
>
> I've spent the last few years refashioning myself as a PHP developer
> having come from a WinForms/ASP.NET background and it's been kind of
> like career suicide. The way I looked at it was lots of successful
> websites have been implemented in PHP, so how bad could it be? The
> answer is: it's bad! But in a comfy kind of a way. Kind of like VB6 was
> comfy, even if the big kids used to tease you about it, you could get
> stuff done. The problem is that the code is a mess. Try creating a
> WordPress plugin and you'll see how much the technology sucks.
>
> The reason it has been career suicide is that if I go for a PHP job
> people say, well, you have hardly any experience in PHP. If I got for a
> .NET job they say, you haven't worked with .NET for four years and
> you're out of date. It's a non-trivial thing making drastic changes to
> your skill set in the middle of your career. I kind of look at it and
> go, yeah, but it's all SQL and HTML/CSS/JavaScript, but employers don't
> think like that. I'm still planning to persevere with the PHP thing.
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