ashtophoenix

Throw yourself into the fire! What I'm trying to say is, find a small business owner and build something for them for free. That way you'll:

- Learn the new skills - Be motivated to do a decent job as someone will actually be using your stuff - Have something to showcase on your Resume

-Sid

What a silly article - When it said how to get experience working with large datasets I was expecting it would explain more about storage/scalability/design/caching issues etc. There are myriad ways to get (or generate) data to play with...