VendAsta Technology is an All You Can Eat Buffet.
This week marked my first week on a new project at VendAsta. For the past 7 years I’ve spent my professional life awash a sea of .NET technologies. Web? ASP.NET. Desktop? Win32 & WPF. SOA? SOAP & WCF. And so on and so forth. That all came to an end this past Monday when I transitioned away from our .NET project and started work (or training, rather) on our own spin up application.
Excited? Indeed. But that overhwelming sense of “oh man, what have I gotten myself into” has been red-lining for 5 days. Reason? I have literally a dozen technologies that I need to learn… and they’re adding all the time. Currently, this is the list of technologies I need to learn:
- Google App Engine
- BigTable (or is it DataStore now?)
- Django
- jQuery
- Python
- YUI (Yahoo! User Interface)
- FBML (Facebook Markup Language)
- Facebook API
- CSS (Yea, it’s been years and I can’t remember jack)
- OpenID
- OpenSocial
- FriendConnect
These are all technologies we are currently planning on using in our new application. The list may (and likely will) change during as the requirements change, but so far this is it. As I said, I’m pumped… but man… can I do it? Can I manage this curve? You know it. Can you? Would you like to find out?
You and all your mashups… like I’m afraid of you, Web 2.0!
