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sanj, Your comments have been pretty insightful. Would you mind sharing a little more about your background wrt handheld development?
by comatose_kid 18y ago
sanj,
Your comments have been pretty insightful. Would you mind sharing a little more about your background wrt handheld development?
- sanj 18y agoSure. I ended up with a Newton from school when Apple was dumping the MP100s. A buddy and I started writing stuff for them -- some games and a VT100 emulator. Bits of them here: http://web.archive.org/web/20041210150544/http://www.scrawlsoft.com/ http://web.archive.org/web/20041210150544/http://www.scrawls... The game I mentioned is here: http://web.archive.org/web/20030811081833/scrawlsoft.com/products/yazi/info.html http://web.archive.org/web/20030811081833/scrawlsoft.com/pro... When the Newton disappeared on 1997-02-27, we got call from the guys at Palm (mostly ex-Newton folks) to lure us to code for the PalmOS rather than WinCE. We only wrote one neat bit: http://www.powermedia.com/pilot/index.shtml http://www.powermedia.com/pilot/index.shtml About a year after that I helped cofound PatientKeeper, http://www.patientkeeper.com http://www.patientkeeper.com, where I wrote the first 7ish versions of the handheld app before we hired some really talented engineers to hand it off to. I spent the next several years writing the server side of that system while watching them take ideas I'd had to new, amazing places. My last project there resulted in this: http://www.patientkeeper.com/news_and_events/press_releases/2008/02132008.html http://www.patientkeeper.com/news_and_events/press_releases/... Which, by my calculations, represented ~70% of their $45m FY08.