Letter from the Editor (from the Ice Floe)

Dispatch 1

Welcome to the first of a series of Letters from the Ice Floe. These letters are dispatched from time to time from one of the more isolated corners of the globe, the frozen home of the QuickTime Engineering team. Each letter contains some useful tips on taking best advantage of QuickTime. Because it is rather challenging to write technical documents with a penguin feather, each letter will be short and to the point.

Because QuickTime is a large system of integrated software components, no one set of documentation can hope to meet the needs of every developer. Different developers will use the same components of QuickTime for very different purposes. Letters from the Ice Floe will help to explain some common conventions for working with QuickTime that may not always be obvious from the reference documentation.

Letters from the Ice Floe will be updated regularly. It is our hope that Letters from the Ice Floe will become one of the first places you look for answers to your QuickTime questions after the core QuickTime 3 Reference documents.

Ideas for topics for letters come from developers working with QuickTime. If you are working with QuickTime, you should subscribe to the QuickTime-Dev mailing list where you can ask your questions and share your solutions with QuickTime programmers worldwide. Often ideas for a Letter from the Ice Floe come from questions posted to the QuickTime-Dev mailing list. If you've got a suggestion for a Letter from the Ice Floe, please feel to send us a letter at qticefloe@apple.com from where ever you are, even if you aren't trapped on an ice floe.

Sincerely,
The Editor

Definition

Source: WordNet (r) 1.6 [wn]

         ice floe
              n : a flat mass of ice floating at sea [syn: {ice field}, {floe}]