[LRUG] Slight career shift

[benjohn at fysh.org]

Hi everyone.

If you were were a good c++ coder [1], who's done a good dash or Ruby and
loves it along with other high level languages, who generally like the
science part of computer science, and thinks that maybe they'd really
enjoy working in this Web 2.0 stuff because it sounds a lot more like
building real applications, but hasn't really got any web experience, what
would you do? :-)

This is, I'll admit, partly a random job beg. However, it's also a request
for advice on how to go about getting in to a company doing a role that
you've not got a lot of formal experience of.

[1] which has drawn you from builing heavily graphical end user
applciations in small companies which you loved, to writing enterprise
components for a financial, which you are rather less enthusiastic about.