WWDC times, rumor times :-) No, folks, I am not starting yet another death of WO prediction. We had enough of them in the past. In contrary, for the folks that so often ask questions if it is worth starting to learn WO I'd like to write few encouraging words by describing how much our team was able to achieve just in 2-3 years. We delivered successfully three large systems, and a handful of smaller projects. I will describe with few words just the large projects.
1. Few years ago all large dutch banks agreed on a new standard for exchanging financial documents (invoices, statements, dunning letters, orders, and finance reports), and corresponding protocols for initiating transactions if documents require it (e.g. payment of an invoice). The exchange of documents takes place between banks and other large organizations (e.g. insurance and utility companies, large online retailers, etc.) Receiver of these documents are the users of the electronic (web-based) banking software. Two ASPs received a license to act as clearing houses for these documents, and for one of them (bluem.nl) we wrote the software. It is expected that after the system is adopted by all banks (hopefully within 12 months) it will generate transactions worth tens of billions of euros every year. The system already runs for about half year, and we add new features each month. Apple Netherlands put the story on their site a while ago. If you can read dutch, here it is: http://www.apple.com/nl/business/profiles/bluem/index.html Probably everyone can imagine the complexity of the system, so I will not go into further details. Will only mention that the combined developer teams implementing just the simple interface for the banks had many orders of magnitude more developers, and required more time than our team. 2. Again together with Bluem we developed and deployed already twice a telecom billing and online data presentment and analyses system that takes raw call data, prepares invoices, phone statements, and statistics and make them available to the users in PDF and csv formats, or online. 3. We finished the first phase of a system to control a network of robotic astronomical observatories. As far as we know, this is not only the first and only such software for Mac, but it has many unique features not seen with any other astronomy package. Few weeks ago MacResearch published a short interview about this: http://www.macresearch.org/macs_in_astronomy_an_interview_with_georg_tuparev Tomorrow at the WWDC we will present a poster about MONET (Sci. Dev. Poster session at 6:30) and will be happy to tell you more or give you a short demo. In addition to these projects we will be releasing several new applications. Here few facts about our team and the technologies we use... 1. Team size: started with 5 developers, now 12. 2. We are agile. XP is what we love, but cannot manage 100% 3. We use a mixture of WO, Cocoa, C, and scripts. On average WO is about 50%, and Cocoa - 30%. but this varies from project to project. 4. Database is always FrontBase 5. We use Xcode only (and hope not to use Eclipse, but this seams less and less possible) 6. We do not use Wonder directly (because we started long time ago and use somehow incompatible design), but we learn constantly from it, and borrow many ideas We are following very closely new developments, and we are very confident, that we could not finish the simplest of the projects I mentioned above if we had to use other technologies or frameworks. For this we are very very thankful to all these fantastic and smart folks at Apple!!! Also we are very thankful to many folks on this list, who either directly or indirectly helped us with concrete problems or just with their contributions. Very special thanks to Chuck, Mike, and Anjo!!! We hope in the future to have a bit more time and to be able to start posting again to this list, or contributing by making parts of our software available to the community. enjoy the WWDC Georg Tuparev Tuparev Technologies Klipper 13 1186 VR Amstelveen The Netherlands _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Webobjects-dev mailing list ([email protected]) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/webobjects-dev/archive%40mail-archive.com This email sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
