Change of focus as regards IT Self Study. I haven't touched C++ since the start of April, this year, but have every intention of finishing the book. No doubt I will have to cover some old ground just to come up to speed again, if anything, that's the frustrating part.

The question is why I haven't continued with the self-study. At the start of April I got involved with creating this site and then shortly after that decided to update my Realbasic application that converts Wordpress Blogs to Drupal. The whole point I was learing C++, leading towards the GUI aspect, is that I could do away with Realbasic and not be held ransom to their pricing structure.

The change comes as of a few hours ago I ordered my copy of PureBasic. This software package is attractively priced and better still, the price covers all future upgrades. Better still, yet again, I have access to the Windows, Linux, Mac and Amiga versions.

This version of basic is implemented slightly differently than Realbasic and Visual Basic so there will be a slight incline of a learning curve to come to grips with the basics. From what I've read thus far it shouldn't be that difficult.

I've also got Ruby waiting in the wings but I've got a feeling it'll be waiting there for a while.

As of tomorrow, I'll go searching for some tutorials, get use to some of the basics and then, maybe within a week, start to the process of converting my Realbasic Wordpress to Drupal converter to Purebasic. That process will be part of the learning experience, so it will take time. That's not to say that I won't stop any Realbasic development. If a bug is found, I'll fix it and release a new version.