A Toast to Fourth World Media Corporation. (was Re: Best place for common script)

[Andre Garzia]

On Jan 13, 2004, at 1:49 AM, Richard Gaskin wrote:

> One of my New Year's resolutions is to try to reduce the number of  
> ten-page
> posts I make to this list <g>, but this question comes up often and  
> deserves
> a thorough treatment so I compromised and posted a new article to my  
> site on
> this:
>
> <http://www.fourthworld.com/embassy/articles/ 
> revolution_message_path.html>
>
> For those of you who attended the plugins session at the Rev seminar  
> this
> will serve as refresher notes for some of my introductory material  
> (sockets
> tutorial forthcoming).
>

Now, this article wins it's rightfull place in my all time good read.  
Everytime I read one of the articles of fourth world embassy I become  
full of ideas and hope. I don't know if this is commom, but, everytime  
I read a good, solid, insightfull article (or code) in Revolution I  
turn pretty happy and joyfull. It's like: "Hey, Thats the language you  
choose!!!! It's Cool! You can read it loud and not sound like an  alien  
(this happens with C)" (*joking*)

You might want to know that the article named "Beyond the browser" was  
the one responsible for me winning a contest (it's not a contest, I  
don't know the word in english for when a enterprize open a public  
'contest' to choose which company it will contract for developing a  
solution). The project in question is Project Data Junior  
(http://homepage.mac.com/soapdog/studio/SoapDogStudioDataJunior.html).

I decided to try to win that contract, I was going to code it in PHP  
(That was before me buying a Rev license, I was evaluating the free  
version) with MySQL. The other company was going for a solution based  
on MS SQL Server and Visual Basic.net. I planned everything and made a  
prototype. I read "Beyond the browser article". Next day I bought a  
Studio License for Revolution 2.1.

After two weeks, I rewrote all my project. I attached to it the "Beyond  
the browser" (with all credits and cumpliments) Article as suggested  
reading. I packed everything in a very well humored package, I used a  
metal pan (those packages you get on restaurants when you ask for food  
on the go) as the box and put a nice badge on it written "Proposta  
Quentinha", which means Hot Proposal, here in Brazil we call this metal  
pan Quentinha so there was a joke in the name.

They said my price was higher, but since they are a Advertising and  
Marketing College they found my proposal presentation very creative and  
after reading my suggested reading they decided to give me a try...

So that's feedback... I take all Fourth World articles very serious and  
I learn much from them. I thank Richard Gaskin and all other people  
there for making time to help the community with all those nice texts.  
It's thanks to that article that I was able to buy Rev and launch my  
own little company here.

Cheers to the Fourth World Media Corporation.

Andre Alves Garzia ð 2003 ð BRAZIL
http://www.soapdog.org