Say Hello to Ridiculous Fish
If I’ve ever introduced you to my colleague and friend Peter Ammon, you’ll probably remember me describing him as “one of the smartest people I’ve ever met.” Evidently I’m not alone in thinking that, because he was recently awarded what many of us Cocoa devotees would consider a dream job: an engineering gig on Apple’s AppKit team.
Before Peter left my group for the big time, a lot of us were trying to get him to start a weblog so that his frequent, witty insights about things like the horrors of object oriented Perl (he vociferously renounced Perl once after we sat through a presentation about its OO facilities), the perversity of C++, or what exactly happens in Objective-C when you message nil, wouldn’t be wasted on our daily lunch conversation.
Peter liked the idea, but true to overachieving form, kept us all eagerly waiting while he set about perfecting a fancy (and previously unknown, as far as I know) CSS box corner rounding technique as part of his site design. Fortunately, he now seems to be ready to go, and has launched his weblog at ridiculousfish.com. Mac developers who have been around long enough to have suffered through the incomplete early Cocoa documentation will undoubtedly smile at his first post.
Only time will tell how much Peter will feel he can write about his work, but I for one think having a weblogger on the AppKit team could be a great thing. Whatever he ends up writing about, I’m sure it will be worth reading, so I encourage everyone to give Peter a warm welcome to the blogosphere.