Darin Adler is a senior engineering manager for

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and a frequent speaker at Apple's

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and Stump the Experts panelist. , he is the engineering manager of the

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team at Apple, which also develops the

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framework. Adler was part of the original team that shipped Safari's beta releases and 1.0 release, as well as Safari 3.0 beta for

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. He was the technical lead for Apple's

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operating system release. During 1985–1987 he worked for

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as primary developer of the

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game engine which ran ''

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'', '' Uninvited'', and ''

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''. Adler went on to work at

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and

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Bent Spoon Software
- Darin Adler's consulting company

Diane Patterson's Blog: "Nobody Knows Anything"
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