Tapestry: Wed artists and developers living in peace and harmony with each other :-)
Ara. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:tapestry- > [EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 8:43 PM > To: Tapestry Developer > Subject: [Tapestry-developer] Re: Coverage of Tapestry (fwd) > > Elliotte Rusty Harold doesn't want to cover Tapestry on > his Cafe Au Lait page becuase he "doesn't understand > what it is". > > Let's help him out ... reply back to the list with a one- > paragraph description of Tapestry. I'll collect them > and forward them back to him. > > I'm kind of surprised that, even after looking at the > home page, he didn't get it. I'm trying to read the > home page with fresh eyes, and (though not in paragraph > format) it seems to cover things ... web applications, > object/methods/properties, less coding. > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > http://tapestry.sf.net > ---------------------- Forwarded Message: --------------------- > From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Coverage of Tapestry > Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 11:26:23 -0400 > > Simply put, nothing you have sent me has succeeded in explaining to > me what Tapestry is, what it does, or why anyone would use it. The > messages are full of lots of buzzwords that I can't decode into what > it actually does. If I don't understand it, I can't write about it. > :-( > > For future reference try deleting all adjectives from your info, > especially fast, faster, better, easier, reusable, robust, > localizable etc. See if what's left would explain to somebody what > the product or what it is. I just looked at your web site and I still > can't figure it out. The best I've got is that it's something like > JSP. OK, but what is it? What would I do with it? serve web pages? > build an online store? wash the dog? I don't know. > > This is not specifically directed at you. There are lots of other > projects that get treated similarly for the same reasons, and are > also thus not mentioned on my sites. Velocity, most application > servers, and lots of J2EE products just can't seem to explain what it > is they actually do. > > Also note that to be mentioned the product must be useful to a > Java/XML developer. It is not enough that the product itself uses > Java or XML. > -- > > +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ > | Elliotte Rusty Harold | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Writer/Programmer | > +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ > | XML in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition (O'Reilly, 2002) | > | http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/xian2/ | > | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0596002920/cafeaulaitA/ | > +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ > | Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://www.cafeaulait.org/ | > | Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://www.cafeconleche.org/ | > +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek > PC Mods, Computing goodies, cases & more > http://thinkgeek.com/sf > _______________________________________________ > Tapestry-developer mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tapestry-developer ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ Tapestry-developer mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/tapestry-developer
