I never went to school for programming, and learned web programming/database/frontend stuff (html/css/js/jquery) on the job by myself in a very dirty "whatever works, is made quickly, and doesn't get hacked" kind of way. Heavy emphasis on asp classic, since that's what everything else was built on since the boss refused to learn anything else.

6 years later I'm looking for work and no replies to anything I've applied for, and the "last of the asp 3.0 coders" angle I thought I'd be able to rock isn't rocking. I learned ASP.NET webforms/MVC in my free time, but no replies for those positions either (man do they pay well, though).

Anyway, my old boss lets me use his server to host my own sites, so I was thinking I would make a few small practice websites in various languages and frameworks (asp[.net (mvc)], php, wordpress, ruby on rails if I can set it up on IIS7...), and maybe maintain a blog of some kind where I post code samples and walk through certain tough spots I've encountered, then I can link to it on my resume, and have an "about me" kind of thing where employers who end up on the site can contact me.

Would this help my chances very much? Any better ideas? It'll be a lot of work, but at this point I've given up hope on getting a job in my field and have mainly been looking at entry level general labor type work.

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