[roronoa]

Good points, it definitely took a lot of effort to switch into web development.

There is a lot of good information here in HN for web/cloud stuff, that's how I started in web development (and doing all courses/projects I could get my hands on)

After that, I started doing freelance work on Elance, for next to nothing initially but it picked up really fast.

For cloud/web development there are a lot of meetups depending on where you are as well.

If you have some questions about the web side of it you can contact me on the email in the HN profile...