Jake, I'd like to chime in on both the good wishes and the encouragement. You're brilliant at what you do. Your site is one of the very few that I am sure to check manually every week.
As for feeling like quitting, I think everyone in the Domino dev community (except those with regular jobs) feels that way some time. times are tough. The economy is slow and the Domino development market is still transitioning from traditional to xPages. This means that some shops are holding off on dev projects as they evaluate the new technology or a new version of Domino. Eventually the work will come back, but more and more of it will be xPages work.
It's good that you are branching out to other dev technologies, but I also think you should ramp up on xPages. If I was still a full-time Domino dev I would have invested in one of the training classes by now.
Anyhow, good luck and thanks for the decade of excellent work!
Jake, I'd like to chime in on both the good wishes and the encouragement. You're brilliant at what you do. Your site is one of the very few that I am sure to check manually every week.
As for feeling like quitting, I think everyone in the Domino dev community (except those with regular jobs) feels that way some time. times are tough. The economy is slow and the Domino development market is still transitioning from traditional to xPages. This means that some shops are holding off on dev projects as they evaluate the new technology or a new version of Domino. Eventually the work will come back, but more and more of it will be xPages work.
It's good that you are branching out to other dev technologies, but I also think you should ramp up on xPages. If I was still a full-time Domino dev I would have invested in one of the training classes by now.
Anyhow, good luck and thanks for the decade of excellent work!