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Colin B Maharaj · Guest

Not sure where to ask this, but I am quitting
my job in a few weeks (30 days notice) and
while I have something lined up, I wanted to
go out on my own eventually as a systems integrator.

I was trying to figure out just how much of
what experience I need. e.g. so far I have the
following type of skills
(most everything C++ unless otherwise stated)...

1. Writing Serial Port I/O stuff

2. Writing TCP/UDP I/O stuff

3. Doing COM/DCOM stuff, writing event sinks exposing the type library
and using its functions.

4. Scripting screen scraps (old project in a serial environment) and
moving to a database.

5. Writing telnet clients and servers with knowledge of the telnet
protocol (no big deal really same as 2).

6. Creating a scripting engine (used in a serial terminal emulator I do
some years ago).

7. Being able to interpret properly written proprietary protocols and
coding for them (tough and time consuming but doable)

8. Now beginning cross platform network C coding in Windows/Free BSD
using bcc32 and cc.

9. Some experience in shell scripting C-shell in particular (Unix
experience)

10. Some experience in SQL via MySQL. Importing data and generating
queries via command line.

11. C++, HTML, XHTML, CSS, javaScript, PHP, and a little AJAX.

12. A little XML, a little SOAP and a little XSL.

13. Database development in C++ Builder.

If there is anything else I should try to learn or add to this
Please let me know any advice will be invaluable.

Colin B Maharaj
Trinidad, West Indies.

-------------------------- Experience nut shell ----------------------

1st Job - PABX technician (Nortel/Mitel)

2nd Job - Administrator/C Programmer/Web Master and developer/Support
person in an ISP (leaving there soon).

3rd Job (going to) - Finishing of a major telecoms product in Windows,
which I started privately while in my first job.