[edw519]

"My normal job is way up in the clouds," he said. "This is so much more down to earth; this is really a great change."

I'd rather put it this way:

"My normal job used to be in the trenches. Now it's in the clouds. This is really a great change. I'm never going back."

The more things change so that I can concentrate on the software, the more I like it. No more serial or parallel ports, no more soldering or crimping cables, much less resetting & rebooting..." With USB, plug & play, & wireless, I almost forget how much it used to suck. Now if only I could "think" my code onto my monitor without a keyboard...

[TallGuyShort]

I would agree with you most of the time. However I've found that because most of the people I work with have never learned a programming language that forces you to understand the hardware, they just don't understand some problems. Passing by reference and passing by value, for instance. Unless you've used pointers before, you don't get what's going on.

However - I do fail to see why a web developer finds soldering "enlightening" - that's a little too far removed!