PushButton Engine
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well, it's Flash. People either hate it or love it, but as it is on most computers out there (Windows, Mac, even Linux) it should work across all systems.
But other than my quick search, I've never heard of it (but then I *was* pretty much a back-end computer programmer using 30 year old languages so my view of things may be a tad narrow!)
But other than my quick search, I've never heard of it (but then I *was* pretty much a back-end computer programmer using 30 year old languages so my view of things may be a tad narrow!)
Understood. Yah, I've got the Flash angle covered - that's what I do mostly at work these days (AS3, Flex). But I've usually done backend, Unix-based stuff myself. Transaction engines. Plus, my Perl fu is very good, and I'd program in Perl any day, for almost any reason.
If anyone out there knows of a Perl-programming position in Phoenix, Arizona, please let me know!
If anyone out there knows of a Perl-programming position in Phoenix, Arizona, please let me know!
another review (you got me curious, darn it!) indicated that it was not anything like traditional Flash coding, and it is currently a moving target. Long-term it looks to be a good thing if interest & the business side works out (give away the engine, sell the IDE when they get that, and sell modules & their own games, as well as a marketplace (does *everyone* now have to have their own marketplace?!) for modules/games that other people develop. If they can stick with it, and make it easy enough (apparently there are some quirks in configuring the XML files) it could take off.
I am constantly surprised by the sheer quantity of new languages/scripting engines/operating systems that keep popping up. Happy for it as it brings out some good stuff (as well as bad, but that's Darwinism at work). I just feel that I can't keep up with the language of the day and be one of the kewl kids.
I am constantly surprised by the sheer quantity of new languages/scripting engines/operating systems that keep popping up. Happy for it as it brings out some good stuff (as well as bad, but that's Darwinism at work). I just feel that I can't keep up with the language of the day and be one of the kewl kids.
I've always been too old/busy to learn everything in the computer industry, eh?
There's only a finite number of ecological niches for programming. Caveat emptor. For me, Flex meant I could find a job.
Now YOU'RE making me think of what those "ecological niches" are likely to be, in programming.
Data management. Processing. Service. Automation. Client.
What am I forgetting?
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pretty much since the 80's & the advent of the WWW the pace of software development (in terms of languages at least) has escalated geometrically it seems. Although Unix did have yacc (yet another compiler compiler) way before then so that people could write their own languages easily enough.
Edit - and HTML 5 I think is a game changer as well for web development.
There is no way now for anyone to learn everything in the computer field. Perhaps pre-PC days it may have been possible, but now, nope: you pick what you hope is marketable & learn that. I've been halfway talking myself into taking some classes in Flex or something. I missed the entire WWW movement pretty much (CS degree is 1986, and I've been stuck in business back-end software since then). My only web programming is Asp.Net (and that only because C# is close enough to C/C++ that it was dead simple to learn the basics, and web forms are simply web Winforms for the most part).
I think you have the main niches covered, but then they get broken into so many other sub-divisions. Perhaps add architecture, which is supposed to be the grand unification of all those niches. Then toss in management/marketing's need to have a new name for the same thing every so often just to make life confusing.
Hopefully, that and the resulting specialization is a Good Thing.
