Jim [hbwt] Roepcke's The old school reunion:

Here are the "old school" Frontier users I've noticed set up Radio sites this evening:

I'm really not worthy enough to be included in that list of illustrious Frontier old hands and, of course, Jim didn't include himself but he should definitely be in the list even though he's not quite sure what he'll use it for next ;-)

Joking apart, I really hope that the explosion of Radio (Frontier) newbies and the low pricing of Radio entices many of the "old school" back into the fold. I had the privilege of being involved in the community from Frontier v4 onwards. I found the 'Frontiersmen" to be amongst the friendlest, knowledgeable, and most helpful of developers I have had the pleasure to come across. I learnt a hell of a lot from them - and still do!

I have often wondered why the old Frontier community spirit was so great. Personally, I think one major reasoon is because the programming environment of UserTalk and the persistent object store it operated within was such a fun and productive place to learn and practise your craft. Without doubt, these people are some of the best and brightest software developers around.

Hopefully, more of the old guard will tune into Radio too - even if they don't use it for its weblogging capabilities it's a great Mac/Win scripting environment. And now that it's a native Mac OS X app some - myself included, are no doubt looking forward to re-awakening their old Frontier skills.

I look forward to re-establishing contact with them. In fact, that's probably one of the main reasons I'm so excited by this whole new era of Radio/Frontier!