Create Pocket PC application.
:)
I am reminded of a passage from the "naturalist's" bible, The Earth for Sam, where the author asked the question "What if everybody was a barber?".

I forget the point - it was something along the variety of life theme. Okay you can create a pocket PC application. Now first tell me - does the pocket PC download the 23MB framework?

What kind of applications will the PPC market "pay" for? What's the competition? Whats the margin? From my point of view a lot of that stuff is give aways unless you have a relation with the platform vendor.

You may have an expertise I am not aware of and maybe be very compeditive in that market. I know that Nick and Mike have done some nifty things and I would not be surprised.

Is that space is crowded? Can you compete with high talent low cost Eurasians?

It is an unknown to me. If I had an idea - I would probably hire rather than implement.

So what kind of NET apps are they - games - currency pricers - pornsite connections:)

I seek refuge in the "unusual" business rules market. Only near dead would trod those merky waters.

Do you know what Javascript is?
Not enough to call myself an expert!:)
But I am beginning to learn some.

DOM seems to open a bunch of oppertunities. With DOM a lot of the stuff legacy developers relied on JSP and Java (class) to accomplished seem to be addressable with a client DOM instance. And DHTML - though not quite W3C - presents oppertunities as well. We could - almost - build apps with just a browser, DHTML, JavaScript and XML. I like DHTML - I wish we similar features in VFP. It took me a while to understand that changing the "class" rather than a "property" of a document element was the way behaviors are affected.

Here is some stuff I do with JS. It aint much - but for a guy who grew up being warned by his mother to stay away from "wheel barrows" because they are "machinery" - it's a start. It's an interesting paradigm but I don't know enough to make any claims.

/***********************************/
/* anAPI_Wrapper.js                */
/* Function that assigns an object */
/* reference in the parent window  */
/* with the call:                  */
/* oAPI=create_theAPI();           */
/***********************************/
function create_theAPI()
{
if (typeof theAPI=="undefined")
   {
   theAPI=new define_theAPI();
   return theAPI
   }
else
   {
   alert("API Already exists");
   return theAPI
   }
}
/*********************************/
/* create_theAPI calls this guy, */
/* define_theAPI, which builds   */
/* a container of JS functions.  */
/* Once "referrenced" in the top */
/* window (frame src), any child */
/* frame reference can address   */
/* the contained functions via:  */
/* oAPI.isInitialized()          */
/* It can persist and be re-     */
/* referenced by content find API*/
/* methods.                      */
/*********************************/
function define_theAPI()
{
this.name="API";
this.id="Adapter";
this.isInitialized = 
     function isInitialized()
     {
     if (!mInitializedState && mVERSION_2)
        {
        this.SetError(varGeneralGetFailure);
        }
     return mInitializedState;
     }
this.SetError =
     function SetError(iCode)
     {
     window.MainFrame.Collection.last_code.value=iCode;
     }
}

Here's some code I googled on "really simple javascript tree":-)

// ---------------------------------------------
// --- Name:    Easy DHTML Treeview           --
// --- Author:  D.D. de Kerf                  --
// --- Version: 0.2          Date: 13-6-2001  --
// ---------------------------------------------
function Toggle(node)
{
// Unfold the branch if it isn't visible
if (node.nextSibling.style.display == 'none')
   {
   // Change the image (if there is an image)
   if (node.childNodes.length > 0)
      {
      if (node.childNodes.item(0).nodeName == "IMG")
         {
         node.childNodes.item(0).src = "minus.gif";
         }
       }
       node.nextSibling.style.display = 'block';
       }
       // Collapse the branch if it IS visible
    else
       {
      // Change the image (if there is an image)
    if (node.childNodes.length > 0)
       {
       if (node.childNodes.item(0).nodeName == "IMG")
          {
          node.childNodes.item(0).src = "plus.gif";
          }
       }
       node.nextSibling.style.display = 'none';
   }
}

Any good book recomendations or urls appreciated. I am build TVs with JS and there are DHTML listviews that are every bit as cool as some of the stuff we do with VFP. I got a lot more to learn - for sure!