As many Omnis developers Jean Marc's first career was not programming, he earned his living doing research in sensorial neuro-physiology. As a self trained early adapter of personal computers (first Apple II in 1977), around 1984, he was teaching computers to adults as a student job to finance his Ph.D. His audience was essentially composed of business managers or accountants that knew they had to make the step to computers but were constantly confronted with weird young salespeople speaking an obscure language. In 1985, he discovered Macintosh, realized it was THE tool those guys needed and that, with some good application building tools, he could make dedicated, easy to use, software for them. He began with Omnis 3 in 1986 and keeps on writing software with an emphasis on making the Man/Computer relationship as simple as possible, taking advantage of his backgrounds in sensorial neuro-physiology and psychology. Session Info: Men & Computers... Why does this stupid fly keep on landing again and again on my bald cranium ? Can't it see I'm going to smash it as soon as I can? In this session we'll cover multi-lingual applications; how to's, how not to's. Everything your app needs to be able to talk to people in their native tongue... furthermore we'll look into localization, taking a dive into the huge improvements brought by the new version, Studio v5 |
