Yes, that's a good story. It's very similar to mine with Cactus and other projects (JUnit in Action book, lots of other proposals, conferences, lots of good friends, etc). The morale is: if you help out and you do it consistently, only good things can happen to you :-)
One very important part is consistency (over time). The other is hard work... ;-) What JB did not tell is that since 2001, he's answering almost every single email on the JUnit mailing list (and that's quite a lot)! Thanks JB, you deserve it! -Vincent > -----Original Message----- > From: J. B. Rainsberger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 18 December 2003 18:20 > To: Cactus Users List > Subject: Re: Cactus Testing WAS 5.1 > > Siamack wrote: > > > I was facing the similar situation. But it seems this mailing list deals > with every webcontainer except WAS !!!! . I finally gave up as almost all > my emails with regard to this subject went unanswered. > > Maybe no-one had an answer for you. Maybe that was the indication you > needed that you should figure it out and publish an article. > > Back in 2001 there was about two weeks of constant complaining on the > JUnit mailing list that there were no good, up-to-date tutorials on > JUnit. I got annoyed and wrote one: "JUnit: A Starter Guide." > > I found out a few days later that there was already an excellent > tutorial by Mike Clark "JUnit Primer" on the web and easily-accessible > from Google. Why those people couldn't find it is beyond me. > > Writing that tutorial worked wonders for me: > * it established me in the JUnit community, and while many people > dislike me (their loss), many more look favorably on me > * it got me a job doing corporate IT training, which I held for about > nine months, and which paid the bills until... > * it prompted Vince to suggest to his publisher that I be the one to > write a book about JUnit, which is almost done > > So I wrote one article and it led to a certain notoriety, introduced me > to /friends/ and colleagues in a large community, paid my bills for over > a year and got me a book deal, with perhaps another book deal next year. > > It only took five hours on a Sunday morning, but even if it had taken a > week, I think you can see it would have been worth it. > > If you solve problems, you become in demand. If you don't then, well, > you don't. > -- > J. B. Rainsberger, > Diaspar Software Services > http://www.diasparsoftware.com :: +1 416 791-8603 > Let's write software that people understand > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
