Winnie Tong - Web dev polyglotte: Please mail me the Internet

Winnie is a software engineer at a Silicon Valley start-up. She is a polyglot in human and computer languages. She has been an early adopter of the Microsoft .NET Framework, developing .NET web and Windows applications for the financial sector since its inception as a beta release in 2001. Winnie has previously bumbled about as a Java developer, trying to making Java Server Faces work for her ex-employer's next generation product. The weapon of her current employer's choice is PHP. "Web Dev Polyglotte" attempts to document the trials and tribulations that Winnie encounters from day to day. Winnie does not consider herself to be a zealot for any particular programming language or development platform. In an attempt to stay as platform-agnostic as possible, she also dabbles in Perl and Python in her spare time. Winnie holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo.

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Please mail me the Internet

True story that happened to me today: someone asked me to snail mail them a copy of one of my blog entires and gave me their home address.

The first question that comes to mind is how they figured out how to get to my blog and leave a comment on it without figuring out how to save a web page or print it. Furthermore, what made them think I would honour their request to mail them a copy of my blog entry? (I'm not going to.)

Is this type of user representative of an average web user or a less-than-average web user? How many people like this are out there and do they matter?

Being a computer engineer, I really take computer literacy for granted. This type of encounter with lay people gives me an interesting perspective on the type of audience my products may attract when building the Internet.

Posted by Winona on March 25, 2008 12:03 PM | Permalink

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i'm calling stalker alert -- i suppose they hope you're naive enough to put your return address on the letter?

or they're hoping for a reverse-stalk where you'll go and visit them at their address.

um, yea.

Posted by: moo | April 24, 2008 1:34 PM

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