Art,
I also want to wish you the best. You have been an inspiration to me
over the years I've known you within this community. Although I
hardly touch WebObjects anymore, I do try to keep up with the
community in case I ever have the chance to get back into WebObjects
development.
Enjoy your retirement and your new home.
With respect,
Robert Walker
On Oct 14, 2008, at 2:15 PM, Chuck Hill wrote:
Art,
I will try and choke back my envy at the thought of retirement long
enough to write this. :-)
We have been very fortunate to have you as a member of this
community. I will sorely miss your wit and technical contributions
to the list. I have learned a lot from your contributions over the
years and will remain grateful for that.
As I have a long held hatred of cold, snow and fish, I look on your
decision to move from Hawai'i to Sweden with a sense of awe and,
uh, something else I can't quite pin down. I do hope that you
enjoy life's next adventure!
Chuck Hill
P.S. Does Uppsala sound a like OOPSLA? www.oopsla.org
On Oct 11, 2008, at 12:42 PM, 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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