Focus on your application and its high-level design rather than an implementation language or framework. (If you have startup aspirations, attend to the even h

Focus on your application and its high-level design rather than an implementation language or framework. (If you have startup aspirations, attend to the even higher-level goal of identifying what you can build that people would want.) Then find an open-source application that's similar to what you want to build. Check that it has an active supporting community. See what language/framework they use. Get the application to build on your own. Then make a very minor but visible change and rebuild. Repeat with increasingly advanced changes, features of your own, bug fixes, features requested by others, and eventually your major design plans.