So, here's the deal, there are strength in numbers. Have you ever rowed a boat by yourself? Have you ever rowed a boat by yourself against a full team of rowers? That team of rowers will pass you by ever single time. That's the power of working together in unity.

Union members earn about 30% better wages and benefits than non-unionized employees.

If you want to join a union, I suggest the IBEW. They are the biggest electrical union in North America. They represent more than just electrical workers. 55% percent of their workers are professional or technical.

You can read more about IBEW at the following link. http://www.ibew.org/union/index.htm

You can also read more about the how and why join a union at http://www.ibew37.com/join_ibew37

It's hard to decide what you want to do, both have their pro's and con's.

But to answer your question on programming languages, a loop is a loop, a conditional statement is a conditional statement and that's never going to change. All the other stuff is syntactical stuff which you can easy look up on the web. If you know that there is function or syntax in one language, most often, you can find in another language. It may be hard at first but you write a program one line at a time.

I love reading articles like this because this forces me to vote with my wallet. I wouldn't boycott Capcom comletely but I sure as heck won't ever buy a version of this game.

You need your "master data" (ie: data that describes your work and is considered to be of quality) centralized in something like a RDBMS (SQL Server, etc). Once you have it there you can write scripts to find orphans. Basically you will have a metadata table that will contain all available 'links' to your master data. You then try and find the other side of the "link". The question you are trying to determine is "is the meta data of any quality?".

So, if you needed a table it would look something like this.

Unique key of Master Data, Flag to determine if unique key exists (because this changes over time), Meta Data key, flag to determine if meta data exists(because this changes as well)

You then run a script against this nightly to determine if your "links" are broken. I also like to have it visualized by having an HTML page display a nice gren check for a good link and a big red x for a bad link.

If you do this, you will really have a good idea of your data and it will allow you to QA it much better.