[LINK] The Emergence of the Casual Programmer.

[Stephen Loosley]

Hi all,

Soon "ubiquitous (pervasive) computing” will become the norm as microprocessors, sensors, and cloud services make their way into almost everything and every product in our homes, cars, offices, and beyond. 

It is already becomming too burdensome for the many connected product and service companies to deliver software that anticipates all of our individual user needs and integration methods for the many thousands of newly connected products coming on to the market. 

Now, a shift is underway in software and service design whereby the programming command and control of all these devices in this complex connected world will rely on “casual programming” by their owners. That is, giving every day, non-programming people the tools, services and APIs usually reserved for the tech elite to program their own devices in a friendly, easy and accessible manner. 

Thus, we will soon see the worldwide emergence of the casual programmer.

And assisting in this development, here's some example companies to watch:

  IFTTT  https://ifttt.com/wtf
  Wink    http://www.wink.com
  Zapier  https://zapier.com/how-it-works


Cheers,
Stephen