My dear fellow manipulators,
It is indeed my pride to make this announcement.
It is that time of the year
FME 2005 is out with over 1500 user-requested enhancements, resulting in over 20 new formats, and 26 new transformers. With this release, the total number of FME-supported formats has now surpassed 150. FME Suite 2005 includes a technology preview of the upcoming FME raster support, and features 15 raster formats.
Lets forget about all the transformers, readers and writers in FME for now. Those are for the hi-fi folks. Let us have some fun time.
You all must be wondering about the new prehistoric stone head statues in FME splash screen as well on the revamped Safes website.
What do they have to do with FME? Is it to signify that Stone Age people used FME? Or to say that FME has been in existence since pre-historic days or to say that FME is as strong as a rock in the interoperability industry. Nope! Not at all
Okay, did you all know about the Easter eggs in FME and some fun filled pages on Safes website?? You must have heard about the Easter eggs in Microsoft Office products, but now we have it in FME 2005 too!
Oops! Whats that? Did you say Easter eggs!! Am I hearing it right? But, it isnt Easter time?
Yes, it isnt Easter time; But the Easter egg bugs have bitten the folks at Safe Software and the eggs have been laid into FME 2005.
Product warning: Beware the Easter eggs have nothing to do with the chickens or the hens at Surrey, Canada. Nothing to even do with the Mc Chicken
For those who are new to Easter eggs: From the custom of the Easter egg hunt observed in western nations and many parts of Europe, Easter eggs are hidden messages or features, which may appear in movies and books, on CDs and DVDs, or in computer programs. The name is believed to come from the movie Return of the Living Dead, where a military officer uses it as a code word for lost U.S. govt. containers of zombies created by a chemical spill.
In computing, Easter eggs are messages, graphics, sound effects, or an unusual change in program behaviour, that occur in a program in response to some undocumented set of commands, mouse clicks, keystrokes or other similar stimuli intended as a joke or to display program credits. A former use of the term Easter egg was to describe a message hidden in the object code of a program as a joke, intended to be found by persons disassembling or browsing the code.
Ok, here I am letting the cat out of the bag: If this has already kept you all on the edge of your seats, the secret to the stone heads and more such exciting stuff and hidden fun filled pages on Safes web site lies inside those un-hatched Easter eggs waiting to be discovered in FME 2005? Find them (catch them / hatch them) if you can?
More to come from Safe Software...
Happy FME-ing
Cheers
SRG
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