Re: [OT] Thanks for the memories …
Re: [OT] Thanks for the memories …
- Subject: Re: [OT] Thanks for the memories …
- From: Owen McKerrow <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 09:03:12 +1100
Hi Art,
As a long time list member I can't thank you enough for the support
and help you have provided on over the years. And Im sure that
thought would be echoed by many who have benefited from your insights.
So Thanks for everything, and I hope you find retirement as enjoyable
as I hear it is : )
Owen McKerrow
WebMaster, emlab
Ph : +61 02 4221 5517
http://emlab.uow.edu.au
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'The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two
opposed ideas in the mind at the same time and still be able to
function.'
-F.Scott Fitzgerald,
On 12/10/2008, at 6:42 AM, Art Isbell wrote:
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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