\t\t\t\tMurali talks about “Appy Times”.\u00a0 Hot stuff is happening in computing technology, all these apps are coming out, new technology to build those apps is coming out…<\/p>\n
As someone working in the software field, surely I would be up to all the latest, and know all the buzz-words and tehnologies?<\/p>\n
Not really!\u00a0 When Murali asked me about bootstrap, a popular framework for mobile “first projects”, I had no clue what that was!\u00a0 In fact, on my Android phone, I had absolutely NO apps at all, except what I needed for my work.\u00a0 Until a few months ago when I ran into 55-NDA again and downloaded Telegraph and Whatsapp!\u00a0 So I am really not an “appening” dude.\u00a0 I really have no clue about the latest app that just came out and will cook lunch, or whatever…<\/p>\n
I have seen more “next biggest thing”s in technology die rather than live.\u00a0 Even when they don’t die, they change.\u00a0 I worked on something called VisiCalc, which back then was considered a revolutionary technology.\u00a0 It was the original spreadsheet, and for the first time made businesses take personal computers seriously.\u00a0 But it’s no longer around, long ago replaced by something called Microsoft Excel.<\/p>\n
I saw a language called “Ada” which was going to change the world – nowhere now.\u00a0 There was Pascal before that.\u00a0 Even things which succeed, have limited life-span.\u00a0 The “C” language once was used for everything.\u00a0 Then its bigger better version called C++ came along.\u00a0 Now it’s been entirely\u00a0 replaced by Java (and on Apple side of things, “Swift”) and new programmers haven’t even heard of “C” or “C++”.\u00a0 Lisp was once the coolest thing in the programming world.\u00a0 Now, nobody knows what that is.<\/p>\n
So when I come across the “next biggest thing”, now I have a wait-and-see approach.\u00a0 If it survives, it will eventually come my way… and ideally someone will pay me to learn it!\u00a0 Though sometimes I have to scramble – and learn some new thing that has rapidly taken over –\u00a0 on my own before I can get a job in it.<\/p>\n
For an intellectual hobby, I have kept up with physics.\u00a0 Things seem a little more permanent there.\u00a0 Force still equals mass times acceleration.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"