Posted by Blinky the Shark on 11/29/07 08:25

Sherman Pendley wrote:
> Blinky the Shark <no.spam@box.invalid> writes:

>> Come on and zoom zoom zoom-a zoom.
>
> You guys are making me homesick for Boston. I had the privilege of
> working as lead developer for two seasons of the 90s Zoom's web site.
> Remember

Nineties? Web site?

You kids! ;) :)

> "send it to Zoom"? CamelBones was intended to replace the FileMaker
> and MacPerl scripts that were used to manage the thousands of
> submissions a week, and beat them into static HTML pages for
> publication on the web site.
>
> Sadly, by the time I got enough round tuits to actually write
> CamelBones, I had already moved on and no longer worked at WGBH. I
> still give 'em credit for inspiring the project though.

You don't know how many of us doing PBS out in the flyover zone envied
you guys at WGBH and KQED and WNET such. :)


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