The Be Newsletter

The Be Newsletter is a weekly electronic newsletter for Be developers and customers, covering the latest about the BeBox and Be Operating System. In it you'll find development details and tips, information about coming Be products, stories about Be programs, and profiles of Be developers and customers.

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Article Index

Engineering Insights

• Synchronization In Device Drivers, Revisited, By Rico Tudor
• European Developer's Conference, By Geoff Woodcock
• The Woes of Memory Allocation, By Dominic Giampaolo
• Shared Librairies And Add-Ons, By Cyril Meurillon
• UTF-8 for the BeOS, By Hiroshi Lockheimer
• Onward and Upward with DR9, By Erich Ringewald
• It's the Customer, Stupid!, By Bradley Taylor
• Using Function Objects In The Be Messaging Model, By Pavel Cisler
• Stargazing in Supportland, By Brian Mikol
• What's the Fragile Base Class (FBC) Problem?, By Peter Potrebic
• What I did On My Summer Vacation, By Robert Chinn
• Please State the Nature of the Emergency, By Michael Alderete
• The new font engine, PART 2: Porting font code from DR8 to the Preview Release, By Pierre Raynaud-Richard
• The new font engine, PART 1: Drawing characters in the correct position, By Pierre Raynaud-Richard
• BScreens and Puppy Paws, By Scott Bronson
• Unicode UTF-8, By Don Larkin
• Customizing the "Open" and "Save" Panels, By Steve Horowitz
• Nino Redux: Porting Audio to the Preview Release, By Marc Ferguson
• Attributes, File And Human, By Geoff Woodcock
• An Obscure Pitfall of C++, By Mani Varadarajan
• Making Life Easier, By Robert Herold
• Doctor Nine, or, Life in a Sokio Tubway By Baron Arnold
• The Long and Short of It, By Ming Low
• DR9 Uber Alles! By Melissa Rogers
• IDE on the BeOS, By Guillaume Desmarets
• Text in the Interface By Roy West
• Synchronization in Device Drivers, By Rico Tudor
• Be Evangelism: The Lost Boy By Scott Paterson
• Fun with Semaphores, By Benoît Schillings
• "Dear Webmaster..." By Ron Theis
• The Sound of Music By Robert Polic
• Reliable Software By Dominic Giampaolo
• By The Node Monitor By Cyril Meurillon
• Will Your DATA Look Like ATAD? By Bradley Taylor
• Paper or Plastic? By Doug Fulton
• Java Junkies By Erich Ringewald
• Tools to Help with Extermination By Mani Varadarajan
• The Media Kit By Marc Ferguson
• Porting the BeOS to your Toaster Oven By Robert Herold
• Dogcows and Goodbyes By Joe Palmer
• Graphics Drivers are Hardware Devices Too, By Scott Bronson
• Fastmath and fastmem are in a boat. Libmoto falls into the water... Who's left? By Pierre Raynaud-Richard
• Browser No More, By Steve Horowitz
• "JE PAR LISALE LE CODE," By Baron Arnold
• OpenGL Rides a Bike, By George Hoffman
• In Case You Missed It, By Peter Potrebic
• BTW, Did We Mention That..., By Don Larkin
• FCC Wonderland, By Guillaume Desmarets
• The Compute-Bound Be Application, By Rico Tudor
• Hardware Repair Forum, By Mike Palmer
• The S in FS, By Cyril Meurillon
• So You Want to Write a File System?, By Dominic Giampaolo
• Be User Interface Basics, By Roy West
• A Typical Multithreaded Game Architecture, By Pierre Raynaud-Richard
• The MIDI Sample Player, By Marc Ferguson
• Standard Template Library, By Mani Varadarajan
• The Evil Empire? By Erich Ringewald
• Filtering Out the Noise, By Peter Potrebic
• Writing Netcard Drivers for the BeOS, By Bradley Taylor
• Junk Mail, By Robert Polic
• Be on the Mac, By Bob Herold
• Fast Pixel Animation, By Benoît Schillings
• BeWare, all Ye Who Check the Web Site By Ron Theis
• I Quit! By Steve Horowitz
• Fast(), Faster(), Fasterest(), By Benoît Schillings
• "Mr. Palmer... 8 of your 15 minutes are up", By Joseph Palmer
• The Devil in the Board, By Pierre Raynaud-Richard
• Source Code Control on the BeBox, By Ming Low
• Multiple Inheritance and the Be Application, By Rico Tudor
• The Kernel Scheduler and Real-Time Threads, By Cyril Meurillon
• Nino: A Simple Audio Test Bed By Marc Ferguson
• The DR8 Graphics World By Pierre Raynaud-Richard
• Bugs! By Melissa Rogers
• Infrared, By Guillaume Desmarets
• The Brain Explained, By Doug Fulton
• DR8 Sneak Preview: Semaphore & Port Changes, By Dominic Giampaolo
• The Secrets of Be Sockets, By Bradley Taylor
• PEF -- The Patently Extraneous Format, By Erich Ringewald
• Investing in CDs, By Robert Polic
• OS Writer's Cookbook, By Bob Herold
• Benaphores, By Benoit Schillings
• We Deliver, By Peter Potrebic
• BeBox Demo -- Take 1, By Steve Horowitz
• Heap Holes and How to Cure Them, By Cyril Meurillon
• Do It Yourself BeBox, Part 2, By Joe Palmer
• Shaken, not Stirred, By Doug Fulton
• Using Loadable Code to Enhance Your Application, By Dominic Giampaolo
• Writing Network Applications for the BeBox, By Bradley Taylor
• Graphic Drivers, By Pierre Raynaud-Richard
• Of Base Classes and Flexibility, By Erich Ringewald
• A Recipe for Smooth Animation, By Robert Polic
• craw, shex, and script: Excuse Me? By Steve Horowitz
• Device Drivers By Robert Herold
• Moving Data Around the BeBox, By Peter Potrebic
• Speeding with the BeBox By Benoît Schillings
• Be Careful, by Cyril Meurillon
• What's Wrong with this GIF Image? by Doug Fulton
• Do It Yourself BeBox, by Joe Palmer
• The Be OS from a UNIX Perspective!, by Dominic Giampaolo
• Everything You Wanted to Know About Be Networking... by Bradley Taylor
• Customizing the Be OS Keymap, by Robert Polic
• From Power Up to the Browser: How the Be OS Starts Up, by Bob Herold
• Summer Vacations and Semaphores, by Peter Potrebic
• "Our" Toy Story, by Steve Horowitz
• Programming Should Be Fun, by Benoit Schillings
• Be Engineering Insights, by Erich Ringewald

Jean-Louis Gassée Columns

• Protecting Investors
• Have Demo, Will Travel
• I Like Apple So Much I Want Two of Them
• The Rebirth of the Set-Top Box
• Where are the UI guidelines?
• Persistent Ideas and Culture
• Be Developer Funding
• Modem Wars
• Nice Product, But...
• Back From Europe
• Is the Law Impotent?
• And Now
• Nerves
• More UI
• The Future of the Home PC
• The Dream of Push
• Quoting Bill Gates...
• Temptations
• Good Net News
• Why Do We Do What We Do?
• Who's Stupid?
• The Heat on the Clones
• Back from Tokyo
• Boardwatch
• Heidi Roizen
• Exiting the Hardware Business
• Why Do We Pay Attention to Japan?
• Developers
• Interesting Week
• Enterprise vs. Multimedia
• Clear-cutting
• One Year
• CoffeeBean
• Thanks to Power Computing
• The Rebirth of the PDA
• Genre
• Apple Rumors
• A Pretty Embrace
• Apple's Quick Rebound
• Are PCs Killing Workstations?
• Seymour Cray
• Who Should Develop on the BeOS?
• The User's Perspective
• AMIGA96
• Samuel Adams, Again...
• Browsing the Rumors
• The War Of Two Browsers
• CHRP, Bad News, Good News
• Macworld Impressions
• Strange Turns on the Way to the Port
• Built-In or Bundled?
• Fun and Games
• The A behind the V
• "Are You Crazy?"
• US Uber Alles -- The Opportunity
• Define Winning
• Evangelism
• Teething Pains
• The Cryptography Dilemma
• Working at Be
• Another Good Week
• Born-Again CHRP
• Where, When Can I Buy One?
• The Meaning of DR7
• What Business Are We In, Really?
• Financing the future
• The Willie Sutton Argument
• Homage
• Forward Motion
• PPCP, MLD/LERD, and Other Permutations
• Skunk Works?
• 500, The Magic Number
• Java
• Black Cyberspace
• Bungling Bundling
• Strategy
• User Interface
• MacWorld? What Are We Thinking?
• Heterogeneous Processing
• For Geeks Only
• Killer Apps
• Giving Thanks

Business & Marketing

• Marketing Mutterings: Goals, Goals, Goals, By Alex Osadzinski
• Marketing Mutterings: Deja Vu All Over Again, By Alex Osadzinski
• Marketing Mutterings: Comdex, Sore Feet But No Sore Heads, By Alex Osadzinski
• Marketing Mutterings: So, What's Next?, By Alex Osadzinski
• Marketing Mutterings: The Most Direct Channel of All, By Alex Osadzinski
• Marketing Mutterings: Recruiting, By Alex Osadzinski
• Marketing Mutterings: Channeling, By Alex Osadzinski
• Marketing Mutterings: The Joys and Perils of Growth, By Alex Osadzinski
• Marketing Mutterings: Premature Announcement Syndrome, By Alex Osadzinski
• Marketing Mutterings, By Alex Osadzinski
• Marketing Mutterings, By Alex Osadzinski
• Marketing Mutterings, By Alex Osadzinski
• Marketing Mutterings, By Alex Osadzinski
• Marketing Mutterings, By Alex Osadzinski
• Marketing Mutterings, By Alex Osadzinski
• The App Modeler Application, by Marc Verstaen, Lorienne [Now BeatWare]
• Where Will You Purchase Be Products? By Mark Gonzales
• "En Direct de Paris" (IT Fourm/Paris), by Jean Calmon
• Market Outlook: Who the Heck Wants a New Platform?, by Mark Gonzales
• Be Marketing Questions and Answers

Programs

• Europe: Developers Must Meet Developers, By Christophe Droulers
• Developer Update, by CK Huan and Valérie Peyre
• Be in Europe, by Christophe Droulers
• Be Developer Relations Corner

Developer Profiles

• Keep Dreamin', By Mark Verstaen
• Steve Sprang
• Good Be Citizens, By Carlin Wiegner and Michael Klingbeil
• Jos van Roosmalen
• Richard Deken
• AppSketcher Available Now for Free!, By Marc Verstaen
• Masaaki Tani, Toyota Central Research & Development Laboratories, Inc.
• Mike R. Manzano, BitBrothers Development Group
• Frithjof Kuntze, Johns Hopkins University
• Chris Herborth, QNX Software Systems Ltd.
• subAtomic Software, By Delbert Murphy
• John R. Ashmun of Aspen Technology
• StarCode, Hard at Work, By Carlin Wiegner and Michael Klingbeil
• Mark Smith, Halibut Computers
• Laurent Domenech, Opalis
• Chris Wilkinson, Michigan State University
• Robert Nasca, Sidney, Australia
• David Jeske
• Piotr Pytlik of Double P Software
• Robert Poole, Leonid Software
• Hugo Fiennes of The Serial Port, By Hugo Fiennes
• Technical Magic, By Gary JP Hewett
• Paul Popernack
• Green Dragon Creations, Inc., By Howard Shere
• Resolute Research Ltd., By Steven Knudsen
• Night Owl Software
• CodeGen, Inc.
• Infant Software
• Communic8, Inc.
• Jim B. Moy
• Shooting Star Systems
• Make It So Pty. Ltd.
• Verified Logic
• Dynamix, Inc
• Leuca Software
• AMP Productions, Inc
• Stairways Software Pty. Ltd.
• Jim Menard
• Shelby Group, Ltd.
• Cronus
• Brookline Software
• The Mipsys GeekPlayer, Mipsys-France
• Abiogenesis Software
• Broadhead, Tomich and Associates
• Be Developer Profile: Acorde Corporation
• Adobe Systems Incorporated
• Charles Turley
• Dynamic Predictions, Inc.
• BoxTop Software
• Illusions Gaming Co.
• Be Developer Profile

Events & Announcements (Recent articles only)

• Be Developer Conference in Boston, Massachusetts, MACWORLD Expo in Boston, Massachusetts
• Be Developer Conference in Boston, Massachusetts, MACWORLD Expo in Boston, Massachusetts
• Be Developer Conference in Boston, Massachusetts, MACWORLD Expo in Boston, Massachusetts
• Be Developer Conference in Boston, Massachusetts, MACWORLD Expo in Boston, Massachusetts
• BeOS demo in Research Triangle Park in N. Carolina
• BeOS demo in Research Triangle Park in N. Carolina, Be Developers Conference in Boston, Massachusetts, MACWORLD Expo in Boston, Massachusetts
• Be Demo Tour: LAMG in Santa Monica, CA, MacHack '97 in Detroit, MI, European Events in Paris, London, Frankfurt
• European Events in Paris, London, Frankfurt, Be Demo Tour in Los Angeles, California
• Be Demo Tour in Los Angeles, California

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