Developer Michael Perrenoud describes what it's like for .NET developers who want to explore the MEAN stack -- MongoDB, Expressjs, AngularJS, and Node.js
I was standing in the middle of a matrix I'd avoided for a very long time: Microsoft vs. The World. It was a decision I thought I'd never have to make. Here I was, 33 years old and feeling like a dinosaur. Don't get me wrong, the skill set I had wasn't so out of date that it was already dead, but I could feel the market shifting. I knew that if I didn't make a change, in 10 years, I'd be staring down that same barrel those COBOL friends of mine were right now.