[devtalk] What language?

[joseph]

Well that petered out quickly  :-) . Apologies for the late 
continuation, but the laptop which collected from this address had had 
enough at the same time as a newish refurb and just as the older desktop 
complained about its rheumatics. Nice to see a few more names to add to 
the talk list, also returning briefly to life following David's query, 
where Chris has kindly helped me again with a couple of problems as I 
try to remove the rust.

Ross's position, and I'm sorry you find yourself caught by the economic 
problems, will probably apply to others on and off the list. I have a 
suggestion. I am still struggling to get active in, but have long been 
an active monitor of publishing. There is massive growth in the number 
of author-, micro-, mini-, and small publishers. These are active both 
in the PoD and electronic markets. Few have much ability in coding - 
less even than my humble efforts [which again I thank assembled company 
for helping and supporting me in].

There are many developments, and they need technical experts and coders 
to improve their positions. Some are simply feeders to Kindle, Apple and 
Amazon books, and have the simple problems of content working on 
varieties of readers which are reminiscent of early day browser 
variations. But the potential goes into complex systems which would 
enable groups of small businesses to offer sites that bypass, rather 
than compete with, Amazon, B&N, W H Smith, Apple and Google. There are 
small areas in coding ebooks with HTML and css2, but the new move to 
platforms able to handle HTML5 and css3 for interactive works is 
underway; not to mention tha Apps market, speciall for Apple.

More interesting work lies in developing the strengths online of the 
small publishers. These are going to require systems that mimic the 
Amazon and similar big retailers, but with much lower capacity, and 
much, much less cost. Anyone able to develop a non-DRM system that 
demonstrably reduces piracy of digital files also has a big market waiting.

If anyone thinks this might be worth looking into I'll answer what 
questions I can and point to any sites and information I think might help.

Joseph Harris


On 12/09/2012 15:45, Ross Clutterbuck wrote:
> Is it just me still grinding away? Well after my previous employer went out
> of business I found myself behind the industry curve and spent 6 months
> unemployed unable to move to a new company.
>
> Freelancing on the side now trying to catch up so I'm still plugging away
> with JavaScript, ActionScript and PHP, but forcing myself into jQuery, AS3
> and a couple of PHP frameworks so I don't spend the rest of my days at this
> betting company!
>
> Ross
>
>
> Sent from my HTC One S
> On Sep 12, 2012 2:20 PM, "Franni Vincent"<franni1 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>    
>> Ah, the joy of retirement - Italian's on my list now!
>>
>> Seriously, I'm working through some new Photoshop techniques, though for my
>> own enjoyment&  for children's worship resources rather than expecting to
>> use them on anything web related.
>>
>> Franni
>>
>> On 12 September 2012 08:30, David Precious<davidp at preshweb.co.uk>  wrote:
>>
>>      
>>> Out of sheer curiosity, what languages/technologies do you all work
>>> with these days?
>>>
>>> I'm doing primarily back-end development with Perl, using the Dancer
>>> framework (www.perldancer.org) and various CPAN modules.  I really
>>> enjoy working in Perl.
>>>
>>> Of course, I rock up the occasional bit of HTML, CSS&  JS, but I have
>>> front-end devs for that at work these days, which is nice.
>>>
>>> What about you lot?
>>>