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BeTips Finds New Home.
Mar 04, 2003 15:48 UTC, by Chris Simmons, Senior Journalist.From the kewl-ride department...
It is with great pleasure that I announce to everyone what some people already know. The transfer of BeTips.net from Scot Hacker to myself, Chris Simmons, so that the tips database lives on. Here's what Scot wrote up to explain his decision.
"Dear BeOS Community:
As most of you know, I had a long-running and deep involvement with BeOS, lasting for around four years. I wrote the BeOS Bible, the BeView for Byte.com, BeHive for ZDNet, and founded this site, The BeOS Tip Server. I was proud that this site was one of the first full-time BeOS web servers on the internet (though keeping it online was always a challenge, even post-BONE). And I was proud of the TrackerBase system I developed to serve dynamic database-driven web content directly out of BFS.
The content itself represents several years of weekend work, both in terms of the tips I've written for the site (around 1/3 of them) and in editing the submissions that rolled in at a fairly rapid pace when Be was at its peak popularity. In a way, writing tips and reading the submissions of others became my umbilical to the heart of the BeOS user experience, and served as a launchpad (indirectly) for a lot of the columns I wrote over time.
When Be tanked, my involvement with BeOS ceased and I migrated to Mac OS X. I ported the Tip Server to PHP/MySQL, and began hosting the site on my Mac.
Being married, working full-time, and having a new baby does not leave me time for OS tinkering, and the Tip Server has started to get stale. I finally decided that it was time for the domain to be in the hands of someone who was actively using and promoting BeOS. I put out the call for a new home and was amazed to receive five hosting offers in a few days -- an indication that the BeOS community had more vitality remaining than I thought (and a reminder of how wonderfully enthusiastic and supportive the community has always been).
I'd like to thank Chris Simmons and the BeOS Journal for taking over the database, the domain, and tip editing responsibilities. Chris is held in high regard in the BeOS community, and has done great work getting the site set up on the new host quickly. No URLs will break in the process - even the tip of the day will continue to be generated and fed to BeBits and other sites that want it. The discussion board picks up right where it left off, and the submission and search engines are fully functional.
Most importantly, Chris has plans for future evolution of the site - the stale period is over. As much as this is a bittersweet parting, my main goal is to ensure that the site remains in the hands of enthusiast BeOS users, and I believe Chris will do a great job of that.
Thanks to all past and future BeTips contributors, and thanks to everyone for the great ride.
Scot Hacker"
Thank you Scot. It is truly an honor, and a privilige, to carry on with what you started. Here's a toast to yet another aspect of BeOS's future. ;)
-Chris Simmons.
"Dear BeOS Community:
As most of you know, I had a long-running and deep involvement with BeOS, lasting for around four years. I wrote the BeOS Bible, the BeView for Byte.com, BeHive for ZDNet, and founded this site, The BeOS Tip Server. I was proud that this site was one of the first full-time BeOS web servers on the internet (though keeping it online was always a challenge, even post-BONE). And I was proud of the TrackerBase system I developed to serve dynamic database-driven web content directly out of BFS.
The content itself represents several years of weekend work, both in terms of the tips I've written for the site (around 1/3 of them) and in editing the submissions that rolled in at a fairly rapid pace when Be was at its peak popularity. In a way, writing tips and reading the submissions of others became my umbilical to the heart of the BeOS user experience, and served as a launchpad (indirectly) for a lot of the columns I wrote over time.
When Be tanked, my involvement with BeOS ceased and I migrated to Mac OS X. I ported the Tip Server to PHP/MySQL, and began hosting the site on my Mac.
Being married, working full-time, and having a new baby does not leave me time for OS tinkering, and the Tip Server has started to get stale. I finally decided that it was time for the domain to be in the hands of someone who was actively using and promoting BeOS. I put out the call for a new home and was amazed to receive five hosting offers in a few days -- an indication that the BeOS community had more vitality remaining than I thought (and a reminder of how wonderfully enthusiastic and supportive the community has always been).
I'd like to thank Chris Simmons and the BeOS Journal for taking over the database, the domain, and tip editing responsibilities. Chris is held in high regard in the BeOS community, and has done great work getting the site set up on the new host quickly. No URLs will break in the process - even the tip of the day will continue to be generated and fed to BeBits and other sites that want it. The discussion board picks up right where it left off, and the submission and search engines are fully functional.
Most importantly, Chris has plans for future evolution of the site - the stale period is over. As much as this is a bittersweet parting, my main goal is to ensure that the site remains in the hands of enthusiast BeOS users, and I believe Chris will do a great job of that.
Thanks to all past and future BeTips contributors, and thanks to everyone for the great ride.
Scot Hacker"
Thank you Scot. It is truly an honor, and a privilige, to carry on with what you started. Here's a toast to yet another aspect of BeOS's future. ;)
-Chris Simmons.
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