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<DIV><FONT face=Arial
size=2>Topic: SCRIPTEASE:
Computer Bondage & Automation<BR>Speaker:
Jammie
Ciocco<BR>
<A
href="http://www.trendy.com">http://www.trendy.com</A><BR>Date:
Wednesday, February
8<BR>Time: 6:00 - 8:00
PM<BR>Where: MIT Stata
Building<BR>
AKA Building 32, on this
map:<BR>
<A
href="http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg">http://whereis.mit.edu/map-jpg</A><BR>
Room 32-124</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>SCRIPTEASE: Computer Bondage &
Automation</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>When you're chained to a desk and slaving over a
project, it's easy to forget <BR>that we are still masters of the machine world.
Even when your own workflow runs <BR>smoothly, having to update someone else's
project always leads to extra <BR>headaches, and that weirdly-formatted content
from your client always leads to <BR>extra work.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Take control by forcing your computer to do the
gruntwork while you take the <BR>credit. Jamie Ciocco, whose interest in
programming began when he was first <BR>asked to paste a thousand graphics into
a presentation, will share creative <BR>techniques for automating web and
multimedia production on Mac and PC:</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>* Textual healing: multi-file search, grep, and
other tools for taming text<BR>* Scripting secrets: supercharging actions in
Fireworks and Photoshop<BR>* Extracting information: making your machine give up
the goods<BR>* Pimping your tools: teaching your old apps new tricks to make
your job easier</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>-----------------------------------------<BR>Jamie
Ciocco has been a professional multimedia programmer for 12 years. He was
<BR>Lead Multimedia Programmer at SilverPlatter Education for four years, and
<BR>created their web course platform in 1996 in between programming piles of
<BR>CD-ROMs. He quit in late '98 to go freelance, shortly after the owners were
<BR>offered $3 million for the company. The company sold for a cool million a
few <BR>months later, gaining Jamie the moniker of "The Two Million Dollar
Programmer," <BR>though only by people trying to butter him up.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Since going freelance, Jamie has specialized in
medical education, with <BR>long-term contracts with medical publishers in the
Boston area, Nashville, and <BR>Memphis. Side jobs have included creating course
websites for Harvard, designing <BR>absurd Flash games for kids, writing
ridiculous songs for no good reason, and <BR>running a hundred-seat theatre. His
personal site is <A
href="http://trendy.com/">http://trendy.com/</A>.</FONT></DIV>
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