Nano2Sol by Marc Boucher

Nano2Sol is the online home of Marc Boucher an entrepreneur and application developer living in greater Vancouver, BC. I founded aTerra Technologies Corporation and Hyperix Search, Inc. and co-founded SpaceRef Interactive Inc. and the Mars Institute.

On this site I write about my various projects and share my thoughts on areas that interest me including, but not limited to, vertical search engines, cloud computing, social networking, Twitter, space exploration and the semantic web.

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Feb 14 2007

Software Programming - The Lifelong Learning Curve

Posted by: Marc Boucher in Programming

So can you teach an early forty something programmer new languages? The answer is simple. If you want to stay at the top of your game, competitive and innovate, you must.

I’m a self-taught programmer and over the years I’ve had to learn many different programming languages, some more fluently than others. These days my primary scripting languages are CSS, HTML, PHP, and JavaScript. I use XML for moving data between applications and for clients. On the command line Perl is still at the top of my list. For my web crawlers I use Java.

None of the above languages is out of date, however to stay at the top of ones game you have to adapt. Hence why I’ve decided to dig deep into Ajax, a mainstay of the new net buzz “Web 2.0” and Ruby, an up and coming language. Ruby is not new, at least not to Asia and Japan in particular where it originated, but it is relatively new in North America.

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