Ubi Sunt? Early KM heroes

When learning KM, you come across the names of people no longer active on the boad. I came along long after, "johnie," but he is still the starter of the Site Check thread, and was a very helpful presence a few years ago as one finds when searching the forum.

I recently stumbled on Hilary Breidel's blog. Anyone just into KM will have benefited from his tutorials and examples, available still via the KM site. He is doing Flex 2 coding, but still links to his KM archive. I stopped by to say "Thanks."

I am not normally into nostalgia and re-unions, but I am curious about the old-time KM users. What happens to old KM users? Are any of them still in touch? In any case, the old idea that "we stand on the shoulders of giants" is true. So, I want to thank those pioneers even if I can only do it virtually.

BTW--"Ubi Sunt" (Where are they?) was a major theme of medieval poetry. How fleeting life is; but the achievements of these early KM heroes lingers, as does the great spirit of helping newbies.

that was lyric :] im an old and doof KM user - ive started with 3,6 and ive got Internet only for about 4 months.

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Originally Posted by jimventola

I recently stumbled on Hilary Breidel's blog.

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Hilary is the one who wrote the first motion script engine that is still being used for flash 5 compatible effects.
I learned a lot from his scripting skills and the dialog with him was the start of the first set of components.

Johnie is still around but appears only as a phantom :p He was the quickest of all that i have seen.