On Sat, Mar 6, 2010 at 9:19 AM, jonathan mawson <[email protected]> wrote:
> > As this is likely to be very controversial, I'll recap one more time while > my > gf finishes dying her hair - > > - Don't ignore people like Mark. His feedback was detailed, thoughtful, and > invaluable if want non-committers to use Lift > > - Do decide how you are going to position Lift. Position being about > -- What can Lift do better than its rivals? > -- Who should use it? Is it a master programmer's tool or accessible to the > Drupal crowd? If inbetween, where exactly? > > Having done that then, rather than a new logo, I'd suggest writing a couple > of articles about Lift that centre around above (Eg "Lift is *the* tool for > intermediate & experienced Java programmers who need to deploy high > performance sites that do X") There are articles in the pipeline. > and creating a new and thoroughly debugged new > user guide. And where are the bugs in the existing user guide? Further, the complaint of the OP seem to be "the formatting is ugly" (okay, we can address this), "I don't like Maven" (this will change) "I don't like markup in my code, except I do this implicitly in Rails" (yeah... not much to talk about). > Get new users, sit them in front of a PC and watch what happens. > Do not help them. Do make notes on what they do and say - and fix every > problem that comes out this way. (I'd probably be willing to work on these > things, although I expect the sentiment for lynching me will be stronger.) > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://old.nabble.com/superficial-first-impressions-from-a-rails-junkie-tp27802055p27805716.html > Sent from the liftweb mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Lift" group. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]<liftweb%[email protected]> > . > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en. > > -- Lift, the simply functional web framework http://liftweb.net Beginning Scala http://www.apress.com/book/view/1430219890 Follow me: http://twitter.com/dpp Surf the harmonics -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Lift" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/liftweb?hl=en.
