David,
Sorry for the late and short reply. You have already said most of what
I wanted to say by now :)
I think we should definitely go for it.
I am still wondering if we should still keep the "old" ESME too?
Or will it be an either or situation?
And regarding this:
" I could conceivably refocus on G2 (but I do want to know more
details) and let the UI masters work their magic."
-- at the moment we don't have any UI masters on the team, which is
turning into a *serious* problem.
Anyone know a UI developer with free time on his hands?
/Anne
On 5. aug.. 2009, at 17.27, David Pollak wrote:
On Wed, Aug 5, 2009 at 7:57 AM, Vassil Dichev <[email protected]>
wrote:
Darren,
I fully agree with you. I have no plans to make ESME harder to
use. At
its
core, it's a micro-messaging system. On the other hand, I do want
to
make
it easier for people who are not Scala developers with access to
the ESME
source code to build applications on top of ESME. I view this
class of
user
as similar to "Excel power users." But Excel power users often
distribute
spreadsheets to their co-workers that allow the non-power-users to
get
something new done.
If it's too complicated, there could be a plugin/version "extra
actions" the way there are separate formula packages for Excel.
Yeah... there has to be layered template libraries available to the
power
users. This is part of the business model that I'm thinking about...
basically... an eco-system (marketplace, app store) for composable
elements.
For complex tasks like this, tooling matters. It should be easy to
compose/debug.
Yes. I've been thinking about "play this range of updates" or
"single-step
this range of updates" so you can see what would happen if you applied
certain transformations/accumulations.
ESME has some similarities to Yahoo!Pipes- both reroute
and transform pieces of text, but in a different context. However,
Yahoo!Pipes makes it easy to assemble components graphically like
Lego
pieces, thereby ensuring that inappropriate pieces don't fit
together.
Yep. Yahoo! Pipes is a great visual builder... but it also feels very
"push" rather than "reach into the ether and find what I'm looking
for."
Vassil
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