Sitting here I find myself not doing what I always wanted to. This is where I cant put my creativity to use. I couldn’t have even thought in my nightmare that I will be sitting in front of a black coloured screen marked with green characters for 14 hours a day.
Then why?? Why am I sitting here??
Life takes you places, and it has brought me here. I was never like this, I always wanted to work for a design institution. It could have been in advertisements, graphic designs. If not all that I wanted to be in the management side of the business. But see where life has taken me. Not a creative being in half a kilometer radius from me.
Its not that it has been a bad experience, and not even that I dint get to learn much. In fact I feel that at many a times I have over exceeded the expectations. But these expectations were never set by me, I had all very different set made for myself on which I haven’t started working at all.
Wednesday, April 18, 2007
Black, Yet Vibrant
The mainframe remains vibrant. What’s changing are the development environments and the variety of robust integration strategies. Today, these are centralizing around Web Services technologies. Gradually, developers and vendors alike will be forced to adopt a more fluid approach. What won’t change is the pivotal role of the mainframe.
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Black, White and Green
Someone asked me "Why is your screen Black??"
Working on these same black screens for almost about 10 months now I wondered if even I knew the answer. "After all why was the screen black". Fine that this came out when there were no coloured screens but its been almost 20 years of coloured screens and still they are nothing but dull and black.
I would have answered it well. Knowing that I was using an old mainframe emulator on my PC could have answered him the same. But even knew that wasn’t the real answer to that question. I really didn't know the answer, using the emulator I could have changed the background to another color, since it's just matter of settings. But this question hit me very deep. It is not just matter of color; everyone recognizes that mainframe screens, also known as "Green Screens" are not known for being user friendly.
The fact that the Green (or Black) Screens is not user friendly is because u can get used to them but they wont mould to make your work easier.
Working on these same black screens for almost about 10 months now I wondered if even I knew the answer. "After all why was the screen black". Fine that this came out when there were no coloured screens but its been almost 20 years of coloured screens and still they are nothing but dull and black.
I would have answered it well. Knowing that I was using an old mainframe emulator on my PC could have answered him the same. But even knew that wasn’t the real answer to that question. I really didn't know the answer, using the emulator I could have changed the background to another color, since it's just matter of settings. But this question hit me very deep. It is not just matter of color; everyone recognizes that mainframe screens, also known as "Green Screens" are not known for being user friendly.
The fact that the Green (or Black) Screens is not user friendly is because u can get used to them but they wont mould to make your work easier.
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