Switching from RD to Sitecore / Drupal / Adobe CMS?

[Kelly]

Hi all, wondering if anyone here has jumped to Sitecore or Drupal or Adobe CMS?  I have 10+ years as RedDot Developer/Admin and LOVE working in RD -- but now find myself on job market finding ZERO jobs in RD these days.  Looking at selling myself as Sitecore or Drupal developer, leveraging my CMS dev skills.  Have u or anyone u know done this and if so, how hard was the transition???  Is one easier to jump into than the other and did you require any training?  Thanks for all and any advice. - Kelly

[Mark Radford]

I've been using Sitecore and Umbraco for a few years now, as well as occasionally going back to RedDot / OT.  I've got to say, they're VERY different kettles of fish.  RedDot's really good at publishing out flat files, whereas CMSs like Sitecore are much more dynamic.  The fact that you can query the actual content DB means you can produce things like APIs to query lists and so on.  Listing pages can be generated dynamically using javascript and AJAX, for example.

I had a bit of a stepping stone via a CMS called Immediacy (which has long since been named other things - I'm not even sure what it's called these days), so that helped me get into Umbraco and then Sitecore.  One thing's for sure, though, if you're still using good old ASP and VB script in RedDot, you're going to need to look into C# instead.

Still - I'd say go for it.  Nothing wrong with selling yourself as a Sitecore / Drupal dev AS WELL as an experienced RedDot developer  :)

Good luck!

Mark

[Kelly Burns]

Thanks Mark!  Very helpful advice! 

Kelly Burns
Mobile: (312) 909-0925
Skype: KellyBurns2005
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