Kerry Thompson is a Boston-area freelance developer specializing in multimedia and multilingual projects. He has been programming since 1981, working in languages such as Basic, FORTRAN, COBOL, 6502 and 8088 Assembler, C/C++, JavaScript, XSLT, and HTML. He first came to the Macromedia world in the early 90s with Director 4 and, a few years later, Flash. His interest in languages stems from his time living in Beijing, and subsequent stints developing multilingual software for companies such as Sony and Disney Interactive. He devotes much of his spare time to music, playing French Horn in several Boston area groups, including holding the principal spot in the Boston Civic Orchestra.
"Yo, guru!" I looked up to see the guy a couple cubicles over
prairie-dogging, trying to get my attention. I think they call me "guru"
because I'm too old to be called "dude," not from the feeling of awe I think
I am due. "What's the ASCII code for the German u-umlaut?" I was tempted to
say "none," which would have been, technically, the correct answer. Instead,
I opted to be nice for once, and told him "Lower case? 252, decimal."
I could have spent time explaining the difference between ASCII, ANSI, ISO
8859, and the Apple Standard Roman character set. Perhaps I could have thrown
in some tidbits about so-called double-byte characters used in Chinese,
Japanese, and Korean. I love to see people's eyes glaze over.
Instead, with a little prompting, I decided to put that information into this
article, in the hope that it will reach some people who can actually use it.
Th... (more)
"Hi, my name is Kerry, and I'm a programmer."
I looked around the room as people murmured "Hello Kerry." Most of them were
what you would expect - some shaggy long hairs, a couple of women with buzz
cuts, a pony tail here and there, some middle-aged guys with even less hair
than I have. A lot of the people were generic American white, but there was a
Chinese couple, a clean-cut man with a yarmulke, a couple of guys who looked
Indian, and one lone, sad-looking black woman. Most of them tended toward
middle age, probably because most of the youngsters are still out there
chasing t... (more)
Kerry Thompson is a Boston-area freelance developer specializing in multimedia and multilingual projects. He has been programming since 1981, working in languages such as Basic, FORTRAN, COBOL, 6502 and 8088 Assembler, C/C++, JavaScript, XSLT, and HTML. He first came to the Macromedia world in the early 90s with Director 4 and, a few years later, Flash. His interest in languages stems from his time living in Beijing, and subsequent stints developing multilingual software for companies such as Sony and Disney Interactive. He devotes much of his spare time to music, playing French Horn in several Boston area groups, including holding the principal spot in the Boston Civic Orchestra.
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