The Be Developer Newsletter

The Be Developer Newsletter was a weekly electronic newsletter for Be developers that has evolved into The BMessage, a newsletter for developers and partners that is published the first and third Wednesdays of each month. Below you'll find links to the archives of the old Be Developer Newsletter. In these archives you'll find sample code, coding tips and more.

Article Index

The article index lists articles from all issues of the Be Newsletter by newsletter section. This is handy if you are looking for a specific past article or subject.

Past Issues of the Be Developer Newsletter

• Volume IV, Issue 17, April 26, 2000
  • ANNOUNCEMENT: Revamped Developer Services
  • Structure or Conduct? By Jean-Louis Gassée

• Volume IV, Issue 16, April 19, 2000
  • DEVELOPER CLASSIFIEDS
  • Numbers, numbers, numbers By Jean-Louis Gassée

• Volume IV, Issue 15, April 12, 2000
  • BE ENGINEERING INSIGHTS: Writing Video Drivers for BeOS, By Andrew Kimpton

• Volume IV, Issue 14, April 5, 2000
  • EDITOR'S NOTE: Be Developer Newsletter Revamp
  • BE ENGINEERING INSIGHTS: Watch Your Data!, By John Dance

• Volume IV, Issue 13, March 29, 2000
  • BE DEVELOPER CLASSIFIEDS: Elegant Media Announces Titan
  • BE ENGINEERING INSIGHTS: The World of OpenGL After BeOS 5, By R. Jason Sams
  • BE ENGINEERING INSIGHTS: Welcome to Kernel Debugging Land (Again...), By Brian Swetland
  • Yeah, right! By Jean-Louis Gassée

• Volume IV, Issue 12, March 22, 2000
  • BE DEVELOPER CLASSIFIEDS: Baxter Add-On Contest
  • BE ENGINEERING INSIGHTS: Ego Surfing, By George Hoffman
  • DEVELOPERS' WORKSHOP: Writing a USB Video Camera Driver, Part 1.01, By Todd Thomas
  • If I Worked for Be... By Jean-Louis Gassée

• Volume IV, Issue 11, March 15, 2000
  • BE DEVELOPER CLASSIFIEDS
  • DEVELOPERS' WORKSHOP: Writing a USB Video Camera Driver, Part 1, By Todd Thomas
  • What About the X-Box? By Jean-Louis Gassée

• Volume IV, Issue 10, March 8, 2000
  • BE DEVELOPER CLASSIFIEDS
  • DEVELOPERS' WORKSHOP: The Minimum Wages of Sin, By Doug Fulton
  • A New Meaning for the "P" Word By Jean-Louis Gassée

• Volume IV, Issue 9, March 1, 2000
  • BE DEVELOPER CLASSIFIEDS
  • DEVELOPERS' WORKSHOP: Monitoring Disk Drives Using devfs, By Owen Smith
  • A Feeble Attempt at IAD Taxonomy... By Jean-Louis Gassée

• Volume IV, Issue 8, February 23, 2000
  • BE ENGINEERING INSIGHTS: BeOS on Windows, By Allan Anderson
  • The Great Internet Appliance Hoax By Jean-Louis Gassée

• Volume IV, Issue 7, February 16, 2000
  • BE SMALL COMMERCIAL & CORPORATE DEVELOPER DISCOUNT: GeekTek Systems 10% Off
  • BE ENGINEERING INSIGHTS: B_MULTIPLE_LAUNCH and the Command Line, By Jean-Baptiste Queru
  • DEVELOPERS' WORKSHOP: Previewing Audio Files, By Todd Thomas
  • An Exemplary Appliance Application By Jean-Louis Gassée

• Volume IV, Issue 6, February 9, 2000
  • BE DEVELOPER CLASSIFIEDS: Kleve Software Needs Beta Testers
  • BE ENGINEERING INSIGHTS: A Device Driver Is Worth a Thousand Words, By Brian Swetland
  • DEVELOPERS' WORKSHOP: The Quick Version of Drag'n'Drop, By Ken McDonald

• Volume IV, Issue 5, February 2, 2000
  • BE ENGINEERING INSIGHTS: The BeOS Networking Environment, By Howard Berkey
  • DEVELOPERS' WORKSHOP: Optimize Anytime with cputime, By Marco Nelissen
  • From the Mailbox By Jean-Louis Gassée

• Volume IV, Issue 4, January 26, 2000
  • BE ENGINEERING INSIGHTS: An Overview of Media File Formats and Codecs, By Dominic Giampaolo
  • DEVELOPERS' WORKSHOP: BeOS -- The Rescue OS, By Daniel Switkin
  • What Now? By Jean-Louis Gassée

• Volume IV, Issue 3, January 19, 2000
  • BE DEVELOPER CLASSIFIEDS: Gobe Software is hiring!
  • BE ENGINEERING INSIGHTS: A Simple Network Discovery Protocol, By Alfred Landrum
  • BE ENGINEERING INSIGHTS: Good MediaFile Behavior, By Dave Bort
  • DEVELOPERS' WORKSHOP: The Haydn Sample Code Projects, By Owen Smith

• Volume IV, Issue 2, January 12, 2000
  • BE SMALL COMMERCIAL & CORPORATE DEVELOPER DISCOUNT
  • BE DEVELOPER CLASSIFIEDS
  • BE ENGINEERING INSIGHTS: Just How Much BeOS Do You Really Need?, By Trey Boudreau

• Volume IV, Issue 1, January 5, 2000
  • BE ENGINEERING INSIGHTS: Multiaudio API, By Steven Olson
  • DEVELOPERS' WORKSHOP: BeOS Driver FAQs (Part 2), By Todd Thomas

Early Be Newsletters

Be Newsletters from 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998 and 1999 are still available; they provide a great look at how the company has evolved over the years.

Newsletter Archive

Past issues of the Be Newsletter are also available in archive files for those who wish to obtain all of the issues in a single download.

• All Be Newsletters in a zipped archive (2.3 MB)
• Recent (Volume III) Be Newsletters in a zipped archive (580 KB)

Write to the Editor

What do you think of the Be Newsletter? What do you want to read about in future issues? Send an email to the editor with your comments and suggestions.