Seattle Before the iPhone #4 - Gus Mueller
This episode was recorded 17 May 2013 live and in person at Omni’s lovely offices overlooking Lake Union in Seattle.
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Gus Mueller, Flying Meat founder, created VoodooPad (now at Plausible Labs) and Acorn, the image editor for humans. Gus is also responsible for open source software such as FMDB and JSTalk.
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Things we mention, in order of appearance (more or less):- Rock climbing
- Luke Adamson
- Missouri
- 2001
- 2002
- Cocoa
- Apple IIc
- 1993
- Mac Color Classic
- BASIC
- ELIZA
- Artificial Intelligence
- Assembler
- Missile Command
- Java
- Eric Albert
- Perl
- Animated GIFs
- CGIs
- Server push images
- REALBasic
- PC
- Apple IIe
- DOS
- Colossal Caves
- Plover
- Nibble
- Civilization
- UNIX
- AIX
- A/UX
- St. Louis
- Columbia
- Math is hard
- Single sign-on
- Servlets
- OS X
- WWDC
- Rhapsody
- 1995
- MacPERL
- NiftyTelnet
- BBEdit
- FlySketch
- Coffee
- Picasso’s bull sketches
- VoodooPad
- 22" Cinema Display
- OS X Innovator’s Award
- O’Reilly
- Peter Lewis
- Rich Siegel
- Mark Aldritt
- Ambrosia
- Panic
- Transmit
- Audion
- O’Reilly Mac OS Conference
- Audio Hijack
- Paul Kafasis
- SubEthaEdit
- Mac Pro
- Ireland
- XML
- Victoria’s Secret
- Caterpillar
- Adobe InDesign
- OS X Server
- Xserve
- Macintosh G5
- MacUpdate
- VersionTracker
- QuickDraw
- Kerberos
- HyperCard
- Objective-C messaging system
- Aaron Hillegass’s book
- Java-Cocoa bridge
- JDBC
- Oracle databases
- 2005
- Seattle
- Microsoft
- Parents Just Don’t Understand
- Vancouver, BC
- B.B. King
- Seattle Xcoders
- Joe Heck
- University of Missouri
- Evening at Adler
- Wil Shipley
- Daniel Jalkut
- Eric Peyton
- Quicksilver
- Rosyna
- Chicago
- Drunkenbatman
- Adler Planetarium
- C4
- Wolf
- Colin Barrett
- Delicious Generation
- Disco.app
- My Dream App
- Chimera / Camino
- Santa Clara
- World Wrapps
- Buzz Andersen
- Quartz
- Core Image Filters
- Bezier curves
- Wacom
- Unit tests
- Automated builds
- ZeroLink
- Metrowerks CodeWarrior
- NeXT
- BeOS
- Macintosh Performa
- Display Postscript
- SGIs
- Sun boxes
- Mac OS 8
- MachTen
- Netscape
- Internet Explorer for Mac OS
- Outlook Express
- OmniGroup
- Shakespeare’s pizza
- Pagliacci
- Neapolitan pizza
- Everett
- FIOS
- Fender Stratocaster
- GarageBand
- AudioBus
- Adobe Photoshop
- Adobe Photoshop Elements
- JSTalk
- AppleScript
- SQLite
- WebKit
- Napkin