Hrm. If it's advice you're after, I'm going to suggest picking up C#.
A quick glance at CareerBuilder shows a dearth of Delphi positions -- though there is one listed outside your preferred commute range (Saddle River). I'm
not sure what your familiarity is with C#, but right now that's a hot skillset (in my experience). My company lists experience with it as a strong
preference for our developer positions, for example (I'd point you that way, but our easternmost branch is in Colorado :/ ). A quick search on CB shows
20+ positions posted in the past 30 days for a C# programmer. The top three on my listing are in Hoboken, Princeton, and Voorhees, respectively, the last of
which Google says is outside your preferred range, but that's only the top three, and one of those is within 20 miles (approximately)..
I'll point out that C# is _dead easy_ to pick up. If you grok class-based programming and are familiar with C, you can pick it up in minutes and start
doing useful stuff in just a couple hours. As I'm sure you're aware, the language doesn't really matter in programming, it's the mindset.
Language familiarity just makes things easier.
Also, Microsoft offers free downloads of the Express editions of VC#. The Express editions are slightly
crippled but nothing that'll prevent you from learning the language.
(I know I sound like a MS fanboy here, but it's really just that that's what the market wants. :/ )
I sent an email to the guy I know whose company is based out of Newtown, PA, and I also realized that I have some contacts at a large consulting firm based out
of Atlanta -- I play Starcraft with one of their top guys a couple times a month -- and they've got offices all over the east coast. I've sent an
email to him too, see if he knows of anything. I'll let you know when I get word back. My email is sofaspud DOT prime AT gmail.com, if you still want to
send that resume along.
--sofaspud
--"Listening to your kid is the audio equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting, Spud." --OpMegs
A quick glance at CareerBuilder shows a dearth of Delphi positions -- though there is one listed outside your preferred commute range (Saddle River). I'm
not sure what your familiarity is with C#, but right now that's a hot skillset (in my experience). My company lists experience with it as a strong
preference for our developer positions, for example (I'd point you that way, but our easternmost branch is in Colorado :/ ). A quick search on CB shows
20+ positions posted in the past 30 days for a C# programmer. The top three on my listing are in Hoboken, Princeton, and Voorhees, respectively, the last of
which Google says is outside your preferred range, but that's only the top three, and one of those is within 20 miles (approximately)..
I'll point out that C# is _dead easy_ to pick up. If you grok class-based programming and are familiar with C, you can pick it up in minutes and start
doing useful stuff in just a couple hours. As I'm sure you're aware, the language doesn't really matter in programming, it's the mindset.
Language familiarity just makes things easier.
Also, Microsoft offers free downloads of the Express editions of VC#. The Express editions are slightlycrippled but nothing that'll prevent you from learning the language.
(I know I sound like a MS fanboy here, but it's really just that that's what the market wants. :/ )
I sent an email to the guy I know whose company is based out of Newtown, PA, and I also realized that I have some contacts at a large consulting firm based out
of Atlanta -- I play Starcraft with one of their top guys a couple times a month -- and they've got offices all over the east coast. I've sent an
email to him too, see if he knows of anything. I'll let you know when I get word back. My email is sofaspud DOT prime AT gmail.com, if you still want to
send that resume along.
--sofaspud
--"Listening to your kid is the audio equivalent of a Salvador Dali painting, Spud." --OpMegs