You know all about Perl, I mean it’s the
most general purpose programming language around, and probably the most widely
used for small ?glue’ applications between other applications. It’s been
described as the ?duct tape’ of the Internet.
Do you know what a Paamayim Nekudotayim is?
Are you a web developer or software engineer? If you’ve used PHP (Hypertext
Preprocessor) to create your websites you would have come across these strange
words. But, why are they there?
Do you know what a Paamayim Nekudotayim is?
Are you a web developer or software engineer? Well come on, spit it out then
(saying these words caused me to accidentally spit on my girlfriend’s arm, she
wasn’t very impressed). If you’ve used PHP (Hypertext Preprocessor) to create
your websites you would have come across these strange words. But, why are they
there? I mean, computer languages are strange and different compared with normal
human beings’ tongues, but this is just too weird.
Jonathan Gay’s found a system of evolving ideas
that works. This is the system he used to develop both Flash recently and LEGO
when he was a little younger.
When it comes to computer technology it is
often the case that it takes a large number of people working together to
create something new and ingenious. However, we do know from experience that
sometimes it is an individual human being who ?cracks the code’ that leads to a
new way of doing things. For isn’t that what technology is, new ways of getting
things done? In the case Of Macromedia Flash we have look to one person in
particular, Jonathan Gay. This one guy pretty much revolutionised the way
animation and sound can now be manipulated to reflect an artist’s vision via
contemporary computers and the Internet.