>>>I'm starting a new job in Hawaii on Sept 2nd. Obviously I'm quite exicted about it - but also a bit freaked-out as I've never even been to Hawaii before. The job is on the Oahu island in Honolulu. Anyone out here from Hawaii? I know Rick S. from west-wind is out there, but looks like he's on a different island...
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>>Wow! Did this come about suddenly or did you just wait to announce it?
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>I accepted the job Wednesday, and they want me to start on Sept 2nd - so I got not much time at all to get over there. It's a 2 year contract so I'm gonna be there for a while too.haha.
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>>IAC, that is really exciting. What kind of work are you going to be doing? (You're not switching to, uh, horticulture, are you? LOL)
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>It's a VFP position - they need someone to help with an existing VFP app as they do a conversion to .NET (gee what a suprise). I'm hoping to poslish up my C# skills over the next 2 years while I'm there too. I have a feeling that this might end up being my last VFP job - they're all slowly disappearing. Anyway if I can get my C# skills up to speed maybe I can even stay with the same comany beyond the two years if I want....assuming I like Hawaii (and something tells me I will..ha)

GREAT opportunity! Congratulations!

I was very intimidated with learning C#. I kept starting and stopping. I would get a small app done and then have to leave C# for a long period simply due to time constraints while working on live VFP apps. Then, the conversion of a major app finally kicked in and I'm working about 50/50 now. Some days more time is spent on the C#. It really is an enjoyable process now and I look forward to more development in it. The faults I find are not where I expected (in the data handling) but in the reporting limitations.

Look up Rick while you are there and say hello. If you get the opportunity, learn from him. Any presentation of his you can attend will be well worth it. I met him for the first time at DevCon last November in Las Vegas (I met Alex F, Ken Levy, and Hector Correa at the same event).