thanks, Johan. Cheers Dan
On 5 October 2015 at 08:43, <johandoornen...@filternet.nl> wrote: > Just went through your writing. > > I really appreciate it: clarifying and giving food for thought. > > Hope to direct as many possible stakeholders towards the README in order > for them to understand the way out of vendor-lockins. > > > > grtz Johan > > > > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > > From: Dan Haywood > > To: users > > Sent: Zat, 03 Okt 2015 17:39 > > Subject: RAD RACE 2015 > > > > > On Sept 25th and 26th we (Jeroen van der Wal & Dan Haywood) took part in > the Original RAD Race competition. This is a competition staged each year, > this year (as in previous years) hosted and sponsored by Cap Gemini, and > held in their offices in Utrecht, Netherlands. > > The competition consists of teams of exactly two team members; there were > eight in total. The competition is held under very strict conditions: 8 > hours of development on the first day, and a further 4 hours of coding the > next. If you do the maths you’ll work out that means a sum total of 24 > hours (2 team members x 12 hours), or 3 person-days. > > We asked and were granted permission to develop our application as open > source; our entry is in a github repo [1]. If you look through the commit > history you’ll see that all the work was done in those 12 hours (8 on 25 > Sept 2015, a further 4 on 26 Sept). > > All the other teams used proprietary tools such as NoutBuilder, ThinkWise, > Progress, SalesForce, Uniface and Mendix. We were the only open source > entry, using Apache Isis [2] (along with supporting modules in Isis Addons > [3]); in fact we think we are the first open source entry in the 17 years > history of the competition. > > OK, we didn’t win… but we got the impression we were mid-table, which we > think is pretty good in the face of the competition. But you can judge for > yourself; either download and build the code, or simply take a look at the > various screenshots/our commentary on the README of the repo [1]. > > The README also has some of our "learnings" that we concluded from taking > part in the competition. > > > [1] https://github.com/incodehq/radrace2015 > [2] http://isis.apache.org/ > [3] http://www.isisaddons.org/ > > > >
