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. > > >