And maybe we should try to get fresh blood in the WO world. I got an
email from someone who went to wocommunity.org and he told me this:
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Dear WOCommunity
WebObjects looks like a great web development platform. However it's
very difficult for a new coming to get started. There are no complete
tutorials, no published books, inconsistent and poor documentation
from apple and the community at large - unless I'm missing something.
I have spent the last couple days trying to figure it all out and with
little to show for my efforts.
1. I have followed the "guides" on wiki.objectstyle.org to little avail
2. Apple's Developer website - this is next to useless. All of the
documentation (except perhaps the API reference for WO 5.4 and 5.4.1)
is outdated.
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And he's right. I told him to look at the podcasts made by David
since it's recent stuff, but before bitching RoR or other tech, we
have to be able to get people onboard and explain to the world why WO
is great. Some people even started to said that the Apple Store is
always down when Apple release new stuff because of the nature of WO.
And when MacGeneration (French Mac news site) posted a news release
about WOWODC, some funny guy said that WOWODC will also us to learn
how to built a dynamic Web site...
Who can explain clearly why WO is a great choice for building Web
apps? Who can explain the differences between WO and other Web
frameworks?
How about let's not be drones and propagate FUD. A bit of research
and the truth can be known:
http://twitter.com/ev/statuses/801530348
From what I can tell the issue that caused this FUD in the first
place had nothing to do with the framework. They appear to have lost
a database server. So maybe it was poor planning, or possibly the
wrong architecture for the particular job. Now maybe RoR had
something to do with it, but none of use here are involved enough to
truly know.
All that being say I still say, "Go WebObjects." But, just because
we have something great doesn't give us the right to bash others and
spread FUD.
On May 3, 2008, at 10:37 AM, David LeBer wrote:
On 3-May-08, at 8:40 AM, James Cicenia wrote:
http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/05/01/twitter-said-to-be-abandoning-ruby-on-rails/
Maybe we should start write-in campaigns. Go WebObjects GoOooooo.
Or maybe not (considering the source):
<http://ismikearringtonadick.com/>
;david
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