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Article Index
Engineering Insights
- My Address? In What Space?, By Igor Eydelnant
- Tools to Compare Releases , By Robert Herold
- BE ENGINEERING INSIGHTS: Getting Mounted, By Robert Polic
- Writing A Sound Card Driver, Marc Ferguson
- Windows 95 Experience on BeOS -- Or How to Hack on BeOS, Dmitriy Budko
- Why Are There User Docs?, By Linda Ackerman
- Splitting Device Drivers and Bus Managers, By Arve Hjønnevåg
- The Tracker Is Your Friend, By Scott Barta
- Be Acquires StarCode
- Proper Printing, By Benoit Schillings
- Spreading the Word II, By Dave Johnson
- Three More Tips, By Hiroshi Lockheimer
- You Give Me Trade Show Fever, By Scott Paterson
- A BView In An Add-on, By Cyril Merillon
- Multiculturalism, Be, and You, By Andrew Kimpton
- Booting Variations For PC And LILO, By Rico Tudor
- Bugs and You, By Steven Black
- How To Be Lazy...., By Dominic Giampaolo
- News From the Front, By William Adams
- Getting Press, By Dave Johnson
- New Windows Of Opportunity (Part II: BeDirectWindow), By Pierre Raynaud-Richard
- New Windows Of Opportunity (Part I: The New Window Manager), By Pierre Raynaud-Richard
- More of My Favorite Things, by Michael Alderete
- File Types, the Tracker, and You (Plus Some Unrelated Tracker Rants), By Pavel Cisler
- BE ENGINEERING INSIGHTS: Slap Up My BeOS, by Baron Arnold
- Fun With Tabs and Sliders, By Robert Chinn
- "Swapping Bytes, Part III", By Peter Potrebic
- Repositioning Yourself!, By Erich Ringewald
- BeWare 101, By Melanie Walker
- Subversive Features or, On The Run From The Secret Service, The CIA, and My Project Manager, By George Hoffman
- Video Basics 2, By Steve Sakoman
- Using the Be IDE with RCS, By Ming Low
- On Horses' Bones, or the Need for Glue, By Mani Varadarajan
- Sniffing the Wires, By Igor Eydelnant
- Workspace Workout, By Robert Polic
- What's Taking So Long?, By Bob Herold
- Printing: A Post-Christmas Wish List (Or how NOT to make a New Year's Resolution), By Mark Van Alstine
- Loading An Image, One Photon At a Time..., By Benoit Schillings
- Bugger Off, By Melissa Rogers
- Three Unrelated Tips, By Hiroshi Lockheimer
- MIDI Synthesis From Scratch, By Mark Ferguson
- Terminal Issues, By Rico Tudor
- Writing Add-ons in C++, By Cyril Meurillon
- Processor-Independent Device Drivers, By Arve Hjønnevåg
- Buried Treasures..., By Dominic Giampaolo
- A Remembrance of Things Past: Writing Mass Storage Device Drivers, By Dmitriy Budko
- YABSA -- Yet Another Byte-swapping Article, By Bradley Taylor
- News from a NewBe, By Tim Black
- 3D Kit Tips And Hints, By Pierre Raynaud-Richard
- Scripting Anyone?, By Peter Potrebic
- Fun with FilePanels, By Robert Chinn
- Help! I Think I Might Have Bought an NC, By Erich Ringewald
- Video Basics, By Steve Sakoman
- Chelsea 'n' Me, By George Hoffman
- Getting Your Applications Ready For Preview Release 2 and Other Topics, By Pavel Cisler
- Introducing the BSynth Class, By Marc Ferguson
- A Problem with Extensions, By Baron Arnold
- Time Zone Support in the BeOS, or Stealing Code to Solve a Problem, By Mani Varadarajan
- Tips on Writing Efficient Interfaces, By George Hoffman
- The Dirty Little Secret of lock_memory(), By Robert Herold
- I Love to Build, By Melissa Rogers
- NetPositive and URLs, By Ron Theis
- Extensions Disabled, By Doug Fulton
- Mastering a BFS CD, By Ming Low
- "Thank you, thank you very much" -- Elvis Presley, By Scott Paterson
- Spamming with BeMail, By Robert Polic
- So You Wanna Play With a Frame Buffer, By Benoît Schillings
- 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 BradleyTaylor
- 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
- After PC Expo
- PC Expo, First Impressions
- Our New Developer Programs
- You're Contradicting Yourself!
- I Have An Idea for a PC Expo Demo...
- How Do I Explain This To My Mother?
- StarCode
- PC Expo
- Just for Fun
- What Do We Do, What Do We Say About Windows 98?
- The Logic of Linux
- Where is it?
- Early Impressions
- Erich Ringewald
- More News from Murphy
- Murphy Works at Be
- The Newton Experience
- Driver Education
- BeDC, Be Dope, and Be Europe
- Paving the Runway
- Appliances at Demo '98
- Returning to the Source
- The March 19-20 Be Developer Conference
- CES Snapshots
- San Francisco MacWorld
- Best Wishes...
- Tectonic Plates
- Trouble With Choice
- UI and the Integrated Browser
- A Nice Comdex
- One Hundred Newsletters...
- BeOS on the Web
- Shipping News
- The Substance of the DOJ Complaint Against Microsoft
- One Step Behind...
- Java Wars
- Major or Minor?
- Software On/Off the Web
- More (Or Less) on Modularity
- The Photoshop Machine
- Is There An Opportunity for Us In the Confusion?
- Scalability or Modularity?
- Complement, Supplement or Replace?
- Tickets and a Tin Cup
- After MacWorld
- BeOS on Intel Hardware
- 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
- Making Money By Dave Johnson
- The Dawning of the Age of BeOS for Intel By Dave Johnson
- Some Thoughts for the New Year by Dave Johnson
- 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
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 Events: IT Forum/Comdex, Paris, France, SD'98 in San Francisco; Be Developer Conference in Santa Clara
- BeOS Demos: SD'98 in San Francisco; Be Developer Conference in Santa Clara
- BeOS Demos: MacWorld Expo in San Francisco
- BeOS Demos: MacWorld Expo'98 and SD'98 in San Francisco
- BeOS Demos: MacWorld Expo'98 and SD'98 in San Francisco
- The BeOS at Comdex, in Lake Charles, LA, Austin and Dallas, Texas
- Be Demo Tour in Lake Charles, LA, Austin and Dallas, Texas
- Be Demo Tour in Europe
- Be Demo Tour in Europe
- BeOS Demo in Portland, OR and Orange County, CA
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