[openbeos] hello, world
- From: "Allen Brunson" <brunsona@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <openbeos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 11:22:37 -0600
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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