How do you keep up with changing technologies?
spc476: Eventually, you'll come to realize that not only are you late to the game, but you're also early to the game, and even on time, depending upon the technology.When I started in the web hosting business, Linux had just crossed the 1.0 milestone, and the CGI spec was the sample code (in C and Perl) from NCSA, and Apache had just been formed.  In that time, I've seen Perl wax and wane, MetaHTML stillborn (back sometime in the 90s I was asked to pick between MetaHTML and something called PHP; I picked MetaHTML.  You can't always pick winners), PHP, Python and Ruby on the rise.Personally, I tend to avoid the hype (I'm still using code I wrote a decade ago on my personal website) and go for what interests me, with the occasional shove in a particular direction when my boss requires it.I've been a (paid) programmer since 1990 and have seen quite a few waves of technology come and go, and I'm still employed.  I've even heard that Cobol programmers still exist.