Keeping on top of things

Well, I had every intention of keeping this up but it's crazy. 2 kids and a lego and games addiction makes it difficult.

It's not the only thing. I'm predominantly a C# Developer although more recently I've been subjected to C++ and MFC. It's not awful but it's slow and at times painful. Going back to C# and web development I suddenly discover it's changed...I mean, we're talking not a little bit but totally changed.

The whole using ASP.NET controls seems to be replaced a lot with JQuery and other frameworks. It's not a million miles away with some techniques I used to use, you know, hidden iframes and sending javascript arrays back from the server with code to update the form...now you ask directly in script and asynchronously update.

Then there's the likes of MVC which I looked at and since has been upgraded 3 times I think.

Why is this like kids and lego and games?

Well, the kids are growing up and my daughter actually grew 5 cm in 8 weeks. (we mark a door frame)

LEGO is so hard as there's new sets out every month. Just when you complete one set of CMFs another is launched. I wanted all the superhero sets but when they are wanting 500 euro to get a wave of sets, nope....

Games is the hardest. I sold my Xbox 360 to get the One last year and I said to myself, finish a game then get a new one....ha! yeah...right.

Also I was writing a Pac-Man Clone and was 80% complete using XNA and boom....bye bye XNA...seriously.

It's impossible keep on top of this as everything changes so quickly so my advice here is this:

Learn what you need to know now and keep an eye on the rest...anything else is a waste of effort.