Thank you - Squeak-dev

31 Dec 1999


      As we tick down to the last few hours of the year, now is a good time 
to publicly acknowledge some of the great work that many in the 
Squeak community have been quietly doing.
Though I have been quiet for most of this past year, we here at Stono 
have been very busy.  We are doing almost 100% our development work 
in Squeak.  Last month we completed rev.2 of an application that we 
developed to do animated presentations for promotions at large scale 
sponsored events (e.g. at stadiums and conferences).
We would not have been able to complete our work without the help of 
many great Squeakers.  In particular, I want to thank Bob Arning and 
Doug Way who did some contract work for us.  Doug Way did a 
_fabulous_ job building the new user interface for our application. 
Bob Arning, as most of you know, wrote the Morphic UI tool kit on 
which the interface to our application is based.  Bob was extremely 
helpful in write code in a pinch, and helping me understand various 
Squeak matters.  I am extremely grateful for his patience.
I also want to thank Jim Benson, Bob Hartwig, and Mark Schwenk.  Jim 
built a really cool QuickTime plug-in that we experimented with for a 
while.  Bob and Mark have helped me out from time to time, and run 
the CSTUG (Chicago Smalltalk Users' Group) which has put on some 
great sessions.  (Any of you in SqC coming to Chicago anytime soon? 
;-) )
Finally, a want to thank SqC, and the entire Squeak list for 
providing such great technical support, thoughtful discussion, and 
technical comraderie.
Have a great New Year!
Sincerely,
--Maurice
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   Maurice Rabb    773.281.6003    Stono Technologies, LLC    Chicago, USA