Jan 99 Factory Floor
Volume Number: 15
Issue Number: 1
Column Tag: From The Factory Floor
What's New at Aladdin?
by Darryl Lovato, Brian Pfister, Peter Thomas, and Dave Mark, ©1998 by
Metrowerks, Inc., all rights reserved.
This month, the Factory Floor visits with the folks at Aladdin. My personal connection
to Aladdin began when they first introduced Magic Menu, the iconic menu that was
added to the Finder's menu bar and allowed you to perform a variety of compression
operations on the current Finder selection. At the time, I was blown away by this trick
and trying to figure out how they did that opened up a bunch of new Mac programming
doors for me.
Darryl Lovato is Aladdin VP, Chief Technology Officer, and Board member. Lovato,
32, is a 15 year veteran in the high tech software business and an Aladdin co-founder.
Prior to co-founding Aladdin, Lovato worked as a Software Engineer for Dayna
Communications on "Mac Charlie", a PC-Mac Emulator, and FT100, a DOS drive for
the Macintosh, while attending the University of Utah in the Computer Science
Department. During this time Darryl also worked as a consultant, a contract
programmer, and a contributing editor of MacTech magazine.
Darryl also worked at TML Systems, developing the TML Pascal Compiler, as well as at
Apple Computer, where he worked on the Apple IIGS Finder, Control Panels, Advanced
Disk Utilities products and later worked on the Macintosh IIsi and Macintosh IIse
computers. Lovato also served as the Apple II laison to the Apple human interface
group.