Media server usage is continuing to grow in our industry. Automated lighting programmers should learn to diversify their knowledge in order to be more marketable. By learning how to program and operate the GUI of media servers, you will gain abilities that will lead to more jobs. Most media server companies offer free or reduced cost training that teaches the specifics of their GUI programming. They will teach you the specifics that are needed to be proficient with their product. Then you can learn to expand this knowledge to larger systems and apply the knowledge as your programming opportunities grow.
—Brad Schiller, from Feeding the Machines, PLSN, April 2012
