QR Codes, ou Quick Response Codes, are all the rage nowadays. Sabe, those black-and-white barcode-looking thingies that show up on magazines, posters, and even some t-shirts.
A QR Code is actually fairly similar to a barcode: it’s an image that encodes data como URL, phone numbers, words, and more. You can even take a picture and sort of turn it into a QR code (the picture is uploaded to the internet and the QR code encodes the URL of the picture.) Sure you lose some aesthetic value, but hey.
Antes de comezar, unha breve viaxe a través da historia…
É 1999. Internet Explorer 5 é cousa quente, a burbulla de tecnoloxía está crecendo. E Mariano Rivera é o World Series MVP. E o mozo (ofegar.)
Un desenvolvedor web senta no seu computador, beber café e escribir un código. El quere facer un xogo baseado en navegador. O único xeito que pode facelo é empregar a plataforma Flash de Adobe para facer unha película interactivo e incorporar iso na súa páxina web.
El quere poñer un vídeo no seu sitio web tamén. YouTube sounds like the name of a cheesy subway line, nothing more. Our developer has to make a Flash movie for that, tamén.
I’m sure this happens to a lot of people: you have an important file on your flash drive and you need to hand it in, print it out, or take it somewhere else. Only problem? You lose your flash drive. It’s happened to me far too many times.
So that’s why I decided to eschew flash drives and emailing stuff to myself and use the power of the internet.
I found Dropbox, which lets me access my files from anywhere as long as I have an internet connection. I don’t even need a flash drive any more; I can just store everything I need on my Dropbox account.
