Dear Readers,
Starting with this issue of develop , Louella has passed the editorial baton to yours
truly, Caroline Rose. If the name sounds familiar, it's because you may have seen it in
the credits for Inside Macintosh , Volumes I-III. At one point during my
three-and-a-half-year stint as the primary author and editor of that magnum opus, I
interviewed an inexperienced but delightfully cocky young woman who convinced me
that she could do as good a job as anyone of formatting the IM files on the Macintosh®
(they were created on the Apple ® III). She was hired, and ended up being a great help
to the project as well as a great friend. You'll also find her name in the credits:
"assisted by" none other than Louella Pizzuti.
But the time came for me to move on. I went looking for jobs and found the next
company I would work for (puns intended). After four years as that next company's
Manager of Publications and a year as its Editor in Chief, I was ready to move on again.
I put the word out at Apple and got a phone call from Louella, with whom I had fallen
woefully out of touch over the years. Now the friendship has been renewed and we're
working together once again--this time with her as my boss!
After a brief orientation (and a wonderful "welcome" lunch) on my first day back at
Apple, I was steered into a meeting at which I had to immediately make my first
decision as develop 's new Editor in Chief. Actually, it was sort of a trick question,
since everyone present had already agreed on the answer. Fortunately, I was of like
mind, and as a result we're calling this simply Issue 6 rather than continue with the
previous issue's use of "Volume 2" (which snuck in while Louella was out with a bad
back). So for those of you who are collecting the whole set (knowing it will be of
inestimable value someday), take note that the previous issue's number should be
reassigned according to the following formula:
int
CalculateIssueNumber(int Volume, int Issue)
{
return ((Volume - 1) * 4) + Issue;
}
Or, for you Pascal types:
FUNCTION CalculateIssueNumber (Volume, Issue: INTEGER): INTEGER;
BEGIN
CalculateIssueNumber := ((Volume - 1) * 4) + Issue;
END;
You may notice other changes introduced in this issue. We hope you'll agree they're
changes for the better; if not, be sure to let us know. Please also let us know if you'd be
interested in writing an article for develop yourself. Do you have any nifty code you'd
like to share with the rest of the Apple developer world? Have you yearned to have
your own silly bio grace these pages (not to mention your photo)? Think of how
pleased your mother would be to receive a copy.
I'll leave you with a riddle: I entered this entire editorial without pressing a single key
on the keyboard or clicking the mouse button. I was as quiet as a mouse (the furry
kind). How did I do this? And furthermore, why? Stay tuned for the answer in our next
issue.
Caroline Rose Editor
CAROLINE ROSE has been writing computer documentation ever since "a computer at
your fingertips" meant timesharing a mainframe. After a seven-year digression into
programming, she returned to her first love--writing--and was given the
opportunity to document the inner workings of a funny little computer named
Macintosh. The result was a three-volume tome that, in its hard-cover edition, was
the first technical manual to qualify as a lethal weapon (and we don't mean by boring
people to death). In what proved to be another digression, she left Apple to launch
NeXT's documentation effort. Returning after a five-year hiatus, she's thrilled to be
back at Apple among friends and foe alike. For pleasure outside of work, Caroline reads
voraciously, swims fanatically, dances, sings, plays Scrabble, hugs her cat, and much
more.
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