Darkwyrm, coder extraordinaire has once again updated his site. He brings us news of just the app_server this time, including some outside help with FreeType2. Here's the (non) scoop:

"Ahh, Ohio. For those who haven't been to Ohio, or the northeast US, for that matter, the weather is quite nice in the winter, particularly when it snows. It's beautiful. Then again, it's even better when we teachers get a day off for snow. :) I had a half day of work on Thursday and the whole day off Friday, so guess what I did? I wrote code. Ironically enough, I traded one form of work for another, but, then again, teaching and coding are fun, just in different ways.

I really worked on the app_server the last several days - the thing now has a never-before-seen cursor manager which will allow OpenBeOS to have systemwide GUI cursors similar to that seen in the various versions of Windows. I'll go into this in more detail some time, but not right now. I also implemented the messenger class for BApplications. It's not quite complete, but it's probably 95% done. As I get time, I'll flesh the server out a bit so that you can actually *run* it. That might be kind of useful. :P

Our copy of FreeType 2 (our font library) has just been patched, as well. It seems a gentleman by the name of David Chester tweaked the hinting module to make things look better. You can go here to check out the results. They're worth a look. Anyway, I hope we get lots of snow tomorrow. ;)"

Nice update. I had been to David Chester's site before and his modifications really make a difference. Also, i've been to the Northeast US (Maine) and he's right, it is beautiful... of course, it's also freezing, but that's to be expected. Keep up the great work guys.