[openbeos] Re: hello, world
- From: "Daniel Reinhold" <danielr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 11:59:50 CST
It's snowing here in scenic Oklahoma as well...
Thanks for the backgrounder. I love reading that kind of stuff.
>Hello, is this thing on? I just now subbed to this list.
>
>For those who don't know me, a little history. I've been coding for
BeOS
>since late 1998. I bought version 4.0 from BeDepot but didn't get
started
>in earnest until BeOS 4.5 arrived with SCSI support.
>
>My biggest claim to fame is an NNTP newsreader called Pineapple News.
I got
>myself hired at Be on the strength of my newsreader and lasted there
for
>seven months. I got laid off in "the final purge" when Palm forced Be
to
>slim down to 50 employees before the acquisition. I'm not
particularly
>bitter about that: I spent all my time working on no-fun eVilla stuff,
then
>when that wound down, no-fun internal messaging and binder stuff. I
like to
>work on apps, not internal plumbing, but at the time Be had no app
work for
>me to do. And I certainly wouldn't put myself in the top 50 Be
employees at
>that time so I think they did the right thing laying me off.
>
>Right now I'm working on a liblayout-type thing called Sabal. It's
snowing
>here in scenic Nashville, Tennessee today so I guess I won't be
leaving the
>house after all like I planned and I'll probably release the first
public
>version later on today. If anybody likes it I'll keep documenting and
>working on it; if not I'll go back to working on the next version of
my
>newsreader.
>
>Since the demise of Be I've been in the process of boot-strapping
myself
>into MacOSX. I'm trying to make my newsreader into a BeOS/MacOSX
>cross-platform app and also expand it into a mail client, Pineapple
Mail.
>
>And that's about all there is to know.
>
>
>
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