In 1993, when Futurewave was founded, the concept of handwriting input was in full swing, so it followed the trend to kill into this field, but unfortunately, Jonathan Gay pressed the treasure on the Go company, helping them develop graphics software on the operating system, but as soon as the product was ready, Go hung up under Microsoft's sniping, and in desperation, it took a lot of effort to transplant the product to the systems of Microsoft and Apple, but the products of these two companies were also unsuccessful, so the sales were very dismal. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

In this context, Du Qiu's acquisition plan went smoothly and did not encounter any obstacles, buying FutureWave for $200,000, bringing Jonathan Gay under his command, and becoming the first famous programmer to be recruited after the crossing.

In the original plane, the prototype of Flash was released in the summer of 1996, but Jonathan Gay gave up the unsuccessful handwriting drawing software as early as the end of 1994 and began to develop vector-based animation software, but at that time the entire company was only a programmer, and the development progress was very slow.

Fortunately, when Du Qiu acquired, Futurewave was a little bigger and already had 5 employees, in addition to the founders Charlie Jackson and Jonathan Gaye, there was a sales manager named Michelle Wales, a programmer named Robert Tashmi, and a painter named Adam Grofchick.

Charlie Jackson founded Silicon-Beach Software Company in 1984, mainly drawing and image editing software, and developed a number of best-selling video games on Apple's Mackintosh machine, sold the company at a high price in 1990, made a lot of money, and then transformed into a venture capitalist, the most famous investment project is the "Wired" magazine with a little relationship with Du Qiu, and the official website of "Wired" was also established at his suggestion.

Jonathan Gay worked for Charlie Jackson when he was a high school student in 1985, and the two have known each other for ten years and have a good relationship, so they not only invested in Futurewave, but also served as the company's CEO, but as a billionaire with a net worth of tens of millions of dollars, of course he was not interested in working for Du Qiu, so he left after the acquisition was completed, and there was nothing to do with it, and the remaining 4 employees all joined Athlon, so that the company had a basic team and was no longer an empty shelf.

Du Qiu has no experience in how to develop Flash, but he has a lot of experience in using Flash, so he spent two days communicating and communicating with Jonathan Gay after the acquisition, helping him sort out the R & D ideas in the way of top-level design, and after everything settled, he went to Wei Zhiqin's house, ready to rest for a day with her, and then return to China.

"Brother Xu, is there a problem for you to stay here for a while longer, help Jennifer form the idesign team, and then go back to Cloud City?"

"It's okay to live in the U.S. for a month or two, but if it's long, I can't stand the food here. Xu Yongrui said while typing into the screen: "I can't stand American women, it's too boring." ”

At this time, Wei Zhiqin walked into the garage with a plate of watermelon, and teased when he heard the words: "You pervert who hooks up with a woman when you see it, what kind of fun do you want!"

There is an air conditioner in the garage, and the temperature is relatively low, but there are servers piled up around, and the heat is very high, and it will be uncomfortable to work next to it for a long time, Xu Yongrui pointed to the ground with his toes, pushed the seat to slide over, took a piece of chilled watermelon, and said: "Sister Qin, it's because of hooking up, so you have to pay attention to taste, if you don't talk about sex, it's better to call a prostitute directly." ”

Wei Zhiqin resigned from the original company and joined Snapdragon, I don't know if it was because of working from home, or because of Chen Dayou's love, she lost the neutral style of the radical feminist before, her hair grew longer, her clothes became more beautiful, and her femininity became more, but she was still very bold in speaking and doing things, she gave Xu Yongrui a middle finger and said with disdain: "Hooking up and hooking up out of the realm? I think sooner or later you will be planted on a woman's belly, or a man's fists and feet." ”

Xu Yongrui shrugged his shoulders, said that it didn't matter, pushed the chair back to the computer, pinched the melon skin with one hand, and ate the melon slowly and elegantly.

"Xiao Xu, it's not me talking about you, now the company's development momentum is so good, there is an opportunity for you to display your talents, there is no shortage of anything, you should seriously find a woman to fall in love, and then get married and start a family. Wei Zhiqin looked like a passer-by, and admonished: "I'd rather demolish ten temples than destroy a marriage, even if you are greedy and lustful, there are many single little girls in the world, why do you always provoke married women?"

Xu Yongrui was silent and continued to eat melons, Wei Zhiqin kicked Du Qiu's chair when he saw this, and asked, "Du Qiu, did you say it?"

Du Qiu was reading an email, he didn't like to interfere in other people's emotional lives, and said without raising his head: "As long as you don't provoke the company's married women." ”

"One is lustful, the other is selfish, and they are not good birds, no wonder they smell the same!" Wei Zhiqin felt that his bosom sister was a failure, so he gave up the advice, put the fruit plate on the computer table, and asked, "Who sent the email?"

"Rasmus-Ledoff, a Canadian. Du Qiu stopped typing, took a piece of watermelon, and said proudly: "Sister Zhiqin, aren't you short of manpower now, I will recruit one for you, and he will be in San Jose next week." ”

"Yo, when did you, the black-hearted boss, change sex, and actually took the initiative to help me recruit people. Wei Zhiqin was a little suspicious, looked down at the screen, and asked, "Is this guy okay?"

"A graduate of the University of Waterloo, last month released a scripting language for the rapid development of dynamic web pages. Du Qiu took a bite of the watermelon and explained: "This language is still in its infancy, not mature, but it is very simple and flexible, which can greatly improve the efficiency of web development." ”

"That's good, the University of Waterloo is very famous for teaching computers, and has established partnerships with many high-tech companies, so students can go to IBM or HP companies for internships while they are in school, similar to the one you do in China. Wei Zhiqin became interested, pushed a chair over, sat down in front of the computer next to him, and asked, "What is the name of that scripting language you are talking about?" ”

"PHP/FI, Sister Qin, you can see it by looking it up in the CGI newsgroup. At this time, Xu Yongrui finished eating the watermelon, and said arrogantly, and said with some disdain: "Mr. Du is too high-minded, that thing is just some CGI toolkits written in C language, and it is not a new language at all." ”

CGI is a kind of web technology used to make dynamic pages, which was very popular in the early days of Internet development, if you use an analogy, the web server is equivalent to a restaurant, the netizen is equivalent to the customer, and the static resources on the server, such as text or pictures, are equivalent to a box lunch made in advance, the user requests once, and sends it out once, the process is very simple, and it can be completed without special technology, and dynamic resources, such as data or forms, are equivalent to ordering, the chef wants to make it on the spot, and then send it to the user, the process of ordering food, it needs to be completed with CGI。

This technology appeared in 1993, most of them were developed in the Perl language, which was relatively inefficient and confusing, so Rasmus-Ledoff wrote some CGI toolkits in C language to replace some programs written in the Perl language, such as displaying how many people have browsed in real time on the web page, or how many people are online at the same time, and then on June 8, 1995, these toolsets were released to the Internet in the form of open source, named PHP/ Pi, at this point he didn't think of it as a language, just a toolkit for building a personal website, so the three letters php stood for "personal-home-page-tools", not the tall abbreviation of "php:hypertextpreprocessor" when it matured.

PHP did not begin to mature until 1998 after the release of version 3.0, and in 1995 it was really not a new language, and the reason why Du Qiu did not stand still and waited for Rasmus Ledoff to appear, and did not rob him of his invention is because this language is like a dagger, simple, flexible but narrowly applicable, only suitable for developing web programs, not as ubiquitous as JavaScript, and not so important.

And Du Qiu rarely used PHP before crossing, there is less information about it in the laptop, and the understanding is not deep enough, rather than tossing around, it is better to sit and wait for the founder to appear, and then recruit him, like the development of flash, only do some guidance work, and the specific content is completed by these cattle themselves, because even with the blessing of the goldfinger buff, he is only one person after all, even if he works 20 hours a day, he can't do it all and get all the technology out.

Two big bulls were recruited at once, and this trip to the United States came to a successful end......

The client has iscript+idesign+flash, and the server has php+mysql+bsd, so that the entire company's product line will be opened, and the technical layout will be basically completed...... (To be continued.) )