> Also on a personal front I struggled with eclipse, but the eclipse tools are a bit out of date in this regard. The m2eclipse plugin has many dependencies that are really challenging to navigate when setting up the eclipse IDE.
I would strongly recommend trying it with IntelliJ IDEA. I've been a paid user for a few years now (there is a community version with fewer features), and can't recommend it enough over Eclipse for reasons like this. Officially, we probably don't want to risk a religious war over IDE choice, but I would personally recommend you fire up IDEA. I think you'll find it drops the barrier to entry substantially here because its Maven support is incredibly solid and deeply built-in. On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 7:04 PM Ryan Withers <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello Nifi Community, > > I owe a couple people responses for a welcome to the community. I made > a mistake and sent the mailing list a question before being signed up to > the list itself, LOL. So instead of replying to the messages directly I > figured I would thank Andy Lopresto, Kevin Doran, and Matt Burgess for > their respective messages welcoming me to the project. > > I have spent time re-reading some of the thread "Lowering the Barrier to > entry" this afternoon. I concur with many of the sentiments that the > documentation is great, there is however a lot of it. Also on a personal > front I struggled with eclipse, but the eclipse tools are a bit out of date > in this regard. The m2eclipse plugin has many dependencies that are really > challenging to navigate when setting up the eclipse IDE. I've actually > been looking for an excuse to adopt intellij (looks like I found it). I > didn't have any trouble building the project on the command line or within > the intellij IDE. I have also generated a processor and a controller > service using the maven archetypes without any issue. I still have a long > way to go with learning Nifi, but I'm excited by its potential and I am > learning more every day. > > At the company I work for we've been working on a process we're calling > Human Centered Agile, and as you might guess it puts the user first. There > is a technique that our Human Centered Designers use called card sorting. > You can watch a short video about card sorting here: > https://www.optimalworkshop.com/optimalsort. I have tried to pull out > what I thought were the main ideas of Nifi into a gsheet to which you can > request access here: > > > https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1XEVL5LOgspNJ5BOb5sbf38SxbaY3Dj5oolHJ8ECO2MI/edit?usp=sharing. > There is a pdf of the same attached. > > I have two questions: > > 1. Would the community want to go through a card sorting exercise? If so > I'm happy to provide access to the optimal sort tool. > > 2. Have I captured what everyone believes to be the main ideas? I'm very > interested in making sure the list is complete. (attached as pdf or > available via the gsheet link above) > > Assuming the list is complete with the big ideas then I will make a pass > at creating definitions. Using the big ideas along with the definitions > the goal of the card sort would be to figure out the relationships of the > data and determine an overall information architecture from those > relationships to help create a site structure that flows more intuitively. > Everybody's efforts at sorting the information will create data / insights > that will reveal relationships between the data that can then be used to > guide us toward an optimal organization of the data. > > Looking forward, > > -- > Ryan Withers > Senior Software Developer / Analyst > > http://www.linkedin.com/in/ryanwithers >
