[OT] Thanks for the memories …
[OT] Thanks for the memories …
- Subject: [OT] Thanks for the memories …
- From: Art Isbell <email@hidden>
- Date: Sat, 11 Oct 2008 21:42:47 +0200
| It is with some excitement, both of the positive and negative sorts, that I am ending my 18-year career as a software developer. I attended NeXT Developer Camp in May, 1990. However, I was unable to find work using this incredible technology until late 1991 when I quit my Unix programming job to take a 6-week contract programming job with NeXT working at Informix to port WINGZ to NeXTSTEP 2.0 (or was that NeXTstep 2.0? :-). From there, I spent 5 or so years developing and maintaining a large NeXTSTEP/OPENSTEP desktop application that, in its inception, used beta versions of DBKit, then moved on to ever-increasing versions of EOF. With NeXT apparently heading toward oblivion, I decided that I had better move to their only technology that might have a future, WebObjects, if I wanted software development to remain fun.
Fortunately, NeXT saved Apple (or was it the other way around? :-) As a result, WebObjects has had more lives than a cat. I have stuck with it through thick and thin, eventually crossing over to the mother ship in 2001 where I continued with WebObjects development internally while providing WebObjects support for organizations under contract.
I have been extremely fortunate to have been able to develop applications using NeXT's and now Apple's technologies. I have not had to deal with the drudgery that most developers face using other technologies. I'm sure that most of you understand.
But the time has now come to move on to the next phase of my life: retirement! I have been living in Honolulu since 1997, finally being able to return after 2 wonderful years in the early 1970's. But life in Honolulu and the U.S. in general has deteriorated considerably during my lifetime (and especially during the past few weeks :-( so I have decided to give Sweden a try. My Swedish-born wife and I moved to Uppsala on 22 September and are starting our lives anew. But this time without WebObjects … and without software development of any kind. Time to learn Svenska.
So I am signing off webobjects-dev and webobjects-deploy. It has been a genuine pleasure to associate virtually with so many truly talented and generous people. Few outside this community can really appreciate the experience.
Lycka till!
Aloha and hej då, Art Isbell |
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