[interfacekit] The time has come ...

On Monday morning I started in a new position with PalmSource, which I am very excited about. PS has new technologies in the works that are going to be very cool to work with. Not surprisingly -- given the number of ex-Be folks there -- the people are also very cool to work with. In general, it's an awesome move forward for me.

I am now also in a position where I have total access to the BeOS code base. Which is cool because I can see how all this stuff was actually done. And which is not so cool because it means that I will no longer be able to work on Haiku anymore. Given my hectic work schedule this last year, I haven't been able to do a whole lot any way, but it's sad to have the door get shut. I don't see any harm in continuing bug-fixing work on the stuff I've implemented to date -- thinking of BMessage, in particular -- as long as I restrict it to that and for a limited time. Before I started at PS, I basically finished up a paper on the FOB1 format. I'll be polishing that up a bit and getting it checked in soon; Axel and Ingo can use that to do a flattened-in-place (for lack of a better term) implementation and rid themselves of the template madness. ;)

It's been a lot of fun working with everybody; there are a lot of amazing people on this project. I'll be keeping tabs on the community, and continue hacking apps for Haiku when I have time (it's still the best desktop OS out there in my mind), and thinking good thoughts for R1.

Thanks,

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