Dear Readers,
By now, I'm tiptoeing through the bulb fields of Holland and painting like a fiend (note
the backpack and the tulips in the photo). But because of Carol, Dave, the review
board, the technical reviewers, this issue's authors, and Lenore directing a host of
others, you are holding the third issue of d e v e l o p.
Carol "Editor in Louella's Clothing" Westberg is the managing editor of d e v e l o p
while I'm out on my much-needed sabbatical; she's the one who's making sure that the
articles say what we want to say (and hopefully what you want to hear) in a way that
we'd like to say it. Dave "if you can hold it, I can juggle it" Johnson joined us in our d e
v e l o p adventures just two short weeks before I took off. As our staff engineer, the
technical buck stops with him. He makes sure that all of the code is fully tested and
that technical disagreements end in decisions, not fist fights. The review board is a
group of talented, thorough, dedicated, and vocal Apple engineers who ride herd on the
rest of us. Together, Andy Shebanow, Pete Alexander, Tim Enwall, and Larry
Rosenstein steerd e v e l o p (and the articles within each issue) in the right direction.
The review board guides us on the content, but when it comes to covers, Cleo (see the
pages describing the Developer Essentials disc for her bio) and I go wild. So, why a
tortoise? Well, this issue's theme is CD-ROM and when confronted with CD-ROMs,
many people first think "slow!" It's true, that compared with a hard disk, a CD-ROM
disc can seem to move like molasses on a winter morning. Or like a tortoise in a race
with a hare. Hmmm, how did that fable go? Seems to me that everyone expected the
hare to win hands (or feet) down. But initial impressions notwithstanding, the tortoise
took off and came out the clear winner. The same applies to CD-ROM; slower than a
hard disk, sure, but faster by far than a human. In the end, the information and the
space are well worth the wait.
Take a look at the CD-ROM articles and figure out how you, like the tortoise, can end
up a technological winner.
Louella Pizzuti Editor
LOUELLA PIZZUTI is a career woman in shorts who freely admits that her favorite
joke isn't funny. Her favorite part of working at Apple is the texture, and her favorite
place to be is outside.
Inside or outside, her favorite color's yellow (the color of madness) and her favorite
painter's Vince.
She likes to play: in the mud (usually planting flowers); on the soccer field; in the
weeds (it's easier than pulling them); but never, ever with words.
She's got her lemon tree (finally) and the convertible is next. We're all wondering
what will happen to the flowers in the bed of her truck. *