{"id":5366,"date":"2012-07-18T12:27:03","date_gmt":"2012-07-18T17:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=5366"},"modified":"2012-11-12T21:50:56","modified_gmt":"2012-11-13T02:50:56","slug":"evan-gross-rip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2012\/07\/18\/evan-gross-rip\/","title":{"rendered":"Evan Gross, RIP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rainmakerinc.com\/company\/tribute.html\">Rainmaker Research<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jamesthomson\/status\/225637776123629569\">James Thomson<\/a>):<\/p>\r\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.rainmakerinc.com\/company\/tribute.html\"><p>It is with great sadness that Rainmaker Research Inc. announces the loss of its founder, Evan Michael Gross, who passed away suddenly at the end of June, 2012.<\/p>\r\n<p>Evan was the author of Spell Catcher software and owner of Rainmaker Research Inc. The original version was released as Thunder! in 1986 and evolved into what we know as Spell Catcher X today.<\/p><\/blockquote>\r\n<p>There&rsquo;s also a company <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rainmakerinc.com\/company\/tribute.html\">tribute page<\/a>. I was a big fan of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rainmakerinc.com\/company\/boxes\/\">Thunder 7<\/a> and wrote to him in May 1996, worried about the future of the product, when I&rsquo;d heard a rumor that it had been sold. He replied:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote><p>Thunder 7 is now called Spell Catcher, and will be published by Casady &amp; \r\nGreene starting sometime very soon.<\/p>\r\n<p>It now has a great future with a good publisher behind it!<\/p><\/blockquote>\r\n<p>Indeed, SpellCatcher shipped later that year and was one of the first products that I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atpm.com\/2.09\/page9.shtml\">reviewed<\/a>. Casady &amp; Greene is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atpm.com\/9.08\/cg.shtml\">gone<\/a> now, but Rainmaker is still publishing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rainmakerinc.com\/products\/spellcatcherx\/\">Spell Catcher X<\/a>.<\/p>\r\n<p>Update (2012-07-20): <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tedgoranson.com\/personal\/a_favored_developer_dies.html\">Ted Goranson<\/a>:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/blog.tedgoranson.com\/personal\/a_favored_developer_dies.html\"><p>The basic idea is unique personal inspiration of a tool creator, enabling similarly unique and personal creation by a user. It is all <em>personal,<\/em> part of crafting a life. I love this sort of collaborative creation thing and my work environment is cobbled together from the products that shine in this way.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rainmaker Research (via James Thomson): It is with great sadness that Rainmaker Research Inc. announces the loss of its founder, Evan Michael Gross, who passed away suddenly at the end of June, 2012. Evan was the author of Spell Catcher software and owner of Rainmaker Research Inc. The original version was released as Thunder! in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[208],"class_list":["post-5366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-rip"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5366"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6551,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5366\/revisions\/6551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}