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[Jay Handfield]

Hello,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Laurent Julliard [mailto:address@hidden
> Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 3:02 AM
> To: address@hidden
> Subject: Welcome to FR-devel
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>
> Jay,
>
> It looks like Curt Hibbs has just approved your subscription to the
> FreeRIDE developers mailing list. It is a tradition on this ML for new
> comers to introduce themselves so that we know each other better. Would
> you mind doing so for your first email to FR-devel?
>
> Thank you very much and welcome again to our small yet very
> motivated group


Thanks for the welcome.  An introduction....

Well I am a software developer in New York City.  At work I mostly do server
side Java stuff on a mostly XP programming team.

In my spare time I have been working on Eclipse plugins and a Java GUI
written with SWT.  While I have been very impressed with the design and
implementation of Eclipse and SWT, after working for a while I began to
strongly suspect that Java  is far from the ideal language to write GUIs in
no matter how the good the design?  At about the same time, I came across
Ruby and like many others had the immediate feeling that it does almost
everything right.  When I saw that someone was working on an eclipse-like
IDE, I wanted to contribute.

Since I am very new to Ruby and client-side application design (as well as
being very busy at work), I don't think I will be able to contribute much to
the architecture/core coding, but I am hoping I will be able to play a
support role of some kind with testing, documentation, or packaging.

Thanks,
Jay Handfield



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