Re: WOProject/WOLips first impressions from an Xcode user

2006-08-13 Thread Ashley Aitken
Hello Andrew (et al.), Thanks for your post. On 14/08/2006, at 4:11 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: of the framework and tools. Tools like WOBuilder, EOModeler, and other tools lead such experienced developers so far and then drop them off a cliff. I have to disagree with you. And I would h

Re: WOProject/WOLips first impressions from an Xcode user

2006-08-13 Thread Andrus Adamchik
C'mon! I have some experience doing open source development and if I learned one thing from that, it would be that I am not allowed to complain, while the users are born with this right :-) There are different categories of users too. Certainly there are troll whose only purpose in life is

Re: WOProject/WOLips first impressions from an Xcode user

2006-08-13 Thread apl
Hello Ashley; of the framework and tools. Tools like WOBuilder, EOModeler, and other tools lead such experienced developers so far and then drop them off a cliff. I have to disagree with you. As I said before, I am involved in a large sophisticated project and we use WOBuilder for all of o

Re: WOProject/WOLips first impressions from an Xcode user

2006-08-13 Thread Ashley Aitken
On 13/08/2006, at 3:16 AM, Anjo Krank wrote: IMO, you need to be pretty good with Java, SQL, HTML and CSS to make it worth the effort to learn WO in the first place... So true. WO (like most other Enterprise Web development environments) is not for "business developers" or "newbies". It

Re: WOProject/WOLips first impressions from an Xcode user

2006-08-12 Thread Pascal Robert
What someone could also look into - if she was a halfway experienced SWT developer - is check out Spindle, the editor for Tapestry and see if that is more adaptable than the WST we currently use. I was also wondering if the FireFox platform might provide some good support for HTML editing

Re: Re: WOProject/WOLips first impressions from an Xcode user

2006-08-12 Thread Cephalo Podus
2006/8/12, Anjo Krank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: This is not me. Certainly not! I am a paragon of patience and manners! Short-tempered. Tsk. In other news, pigs have now learned to fly at ultrasonic speeds... Cheers, Ceph ___ Do not post admin requests

Re: WOProject/WOLips first impressions from an Xcode user

2006-08-12 Thread Anjo Krank
Am 12.08.2006 um 23:17 schrieb Chuck Hill: Anjo the Cranky? :-) Huh? You dont mean this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cranky As a result, he often blames his short-temper on waiting for "slow, little engines" This is not me. Certainly not! I am a paragon of patience and manners!

Re: WOProject/WOLips first impressions from an Xcode user

2006-08-12 Thread Chuck Hill
Hi Anjo, On Aug 12, 2006, at 1:23 PM, Anjo Krank wrote: I'd really like to know why I didn't get the mail you were replying to. I have to check our mail admin on monday. I don't think I did either. I often see answers to messages when I never see the question. I think the problem is at

Re: WOProject/WOLips first impressions from an Xcode user

2006-08-12 Thread Anjo Krank
Hi Mike, I'd really like to know why I didn't get the mail you were replying to. I have to check our mail admin on monday. Am 12.08.2006 um 21:28 schrieb Mike Schrag: I had a MUCH larger response to Robert's blog post carefully crafted this morning before I got on the plane, but decided no

Re: WOProject/WOLips first impressions from an Xcode user

2006-08-12 Thread Mike Schrag
I had a MUCH larger response to Robert's blog post carefully crafted this morning before I got on the plane, but decided not to send it and I spent several hours thinking about it before I ended up with the response you saw, where I explicitly tried to NOT be defensive/ insulting/whatever.

Re: WOProject/WOLips first impressions from an Xcode user

2006-08-12 Thread Chuck Hill
Oh, once in a while. ;-) On Aug 12, 2006, at 12:17 PM, Anjo Krank wrote: Am 12.08.2006 um 20:42 schrieb Chuck Hill: What?!!? You mean it has not been irrelevant for the last several years? Chuck, has anyone ever bothered to tell you that you are a cynic? Cheers, Anjo -- Coming some

Re: WOProject/WOLips first impressions from an Xcode user

2006-08-12 Thread Anjo Krank
Am 12.08.2006 um 20:42 schrieb Chuck Hill: What?!!? You mean it has not been irrelevant for the last several years? Chuck, has anyone ever bothered to tell you that you are a cinic? Cheers, Anjo ___ Do not post admin requests to the list. They w

Re: WOProject/WOLips first impressions from an Xcode user

2006-08-12 Thread Anjo Krank
Am 12.08.2006 um 19:11 schrieb Timmy: I've fortunately received training from two Apple engineers. I was trained on XCode and WOBuilder. I understand the complaints about them - but they're home. I once installed Eclipse/WOLips because I was using Practical WebObjects as a reference. I hav

Re: WOProject/WOLips first impressions from an Xcode user

2006-08-12 Thread Chuck Hill
On Aug 12, 2006, at 11:14 AM, Arturo Pérez wrote: This is a seriously dangerous attitude. As us old-timers fade away due to retirement et al then WO will slide into irrelevance. What?!!? You mean it has not been irrelevant for the last several years? :-P -- Coming sometime... - an

Re: WOProject/WOLips first impressions from an Xcode user

2006-08-12 Thread Arturo Pérez
On Aug 12, 2006, at 12:56 PM, Anjo Krank wrote: Apart from the fact that new people should think trice about using WO in the first place. This is a seriously dangerous attitude. As us old-timers fade away due to retirement et al then WO will slide into irrelevance. Of course, by then

Re: WOProject/WOLips first impressions from an Xcode user

2006-08-12 Thread Timmy
On Aug 12, 2006, at 8:48 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Aug 12, 2006, at 7:52 AM, Anjo Krank wrote: Also, this WYSWIG thing is totally overrated and mainly only useful for beginners, as you see exactly nothing once your components get a bit more complex. Anjo, I mostly agree with you bu

Re: WOProject/WOLips first impressions from an Xcode user

2006-08-12 Thread Anjo Krank
Am 12.08.2006 um 17:48 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I'm not suggesting you run out and build this yourself, but I'd like to encourage those who like this functionality to consider it. Even if it only worked f or simple stuff, to be used as a teaching tool, I think it would be beneficial.

Re: WOProject/WOLips first impressions from an Xcode user

2006-08-12 Thread Marc Oesch
Hello, We, just like you folks, are under no obligation to support open source initiatives, we all do >so for many different reasons but with this kind of attitude from this particular community >we certainly will no longer even try. While the replies' tone may sound a little grumpy [and I und

Re: WOProject/WOLips first impressions from an Xcode user

2006-08-12 Thread womail
On Aug 12, 2006, at 7:52 AM, Anjo Krank wrote: Also, this WYSWIG thing is totally overrated and mainly only useful for beginners, as you see exactly nothing once your components get a bit more complex. Anjo, I mostly agree with you but I'd like to offer this thought: When I first worked t

Re: WOProject/WOLips first impressions from an Xcode user ( sans sniping)

2006-08-12 Thread Pierce T. Wetter III
On Aug 11, 2006, at 7:38 PM, Robert Walker wrote:Hi all,I did some experimenting with WOProject/WOLips today.  I posted my impressions on my blog page in case anyone is interested.  I'd love to hear your feedback.Here's the link:http://web.mac.com/robertwalker1/iWeb/Site/Welcome.html --  I feel you

Re: WOProject/WOLips first impressions from an Xcode user

2006-08-12 Thread Anjo Krank
Am 12.08.2006 um 14:56 schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Well, a couple of hours ago I added my thoughts to Robert's blog. Frankly, this is a *mailing list* - if people have to say something valuable, they should say it, let us discuss it here, and not make us read and comment on that stuff exte

Re: WOProject/WOLips first impressions from an Xcode user

2006-08-12 Thread bdappwodev
Anjo, >> You people should be ashamed of yourself. We certainly welcome enhancements, fixes, or even only ideas, but you must be aware that all the work currently rests on a very small amount of people and they *will* simply stop when the amount of signal to noise progresses to the worse. The

Re: WOProject/WOLips first impressions from an Xcode user

2006-08-12 Thread Rob Caljouw
Welcome to the new world of WebObjects, yes you too can try out this fabulous new technology, offer an opinion and be insulted. Anjo and Mike, what you don't know is the that organization that Robert works for is (sorry make that was) a big supporter of and contributor to a number of open

Re: WOProject/WOLips first impressions from an Xcode user

2006-08-12 Thread Anjo Krank
Am 12.08.2006 um 13:22 schrieb Mike Schrag: My feedback would be to a) join the list and make some official and specific requests for enhancements, b) contribute to the project and help fix some of these complaints you have, or c) don't use it. What he said, only not as nicely: While I ca

Re: WOProject/WOLips first impressions from an Xcode user

2006-08-12 Thread Mike Schrag
My feedback would be to a) join the list and make some official and specific requests for enhancements, b) contribute to the project and help fix some of these complaints you have, or c) don't use it.msOn Aug 11, 2006, at 10:38 PM, Robert Walker wrote:Hi all,I did some experimenting with WOProject/

WOProject/WOLips first impressions from an Xcode user

2006-08-11 Thread Robert Walker
Hi all,I did some experimenting with WOProject/WOLips today.  I posted my impressions on my blog page in case anyone is interested.  I'd love to hear your feedback.Here's the link:http://web.mac.com/robertwalker1/iWeb/Site/Welcome.html --Robert Walker[EMAIL PROTECTED]There are 10 types of people in