Le 2011-09-24 à 15:39, Daniel Bietenbeck a écrit :

> Hey there,
> 
> in Germany is no large WebObjects Developer pool, but from personal 
> experience i would say. WebObjects from no Java and no HTML knowledge would 
> be something like 4 month. We have some young beginners at our company, which 
> are learning very fast the basics of java an html. So that they are after 1,5 
> month Ready for the first WO Lessons. And they are doing very well.
> 
> I think Europe should do it own WOWODC, because my boss will not send me over 
> the ocean but for an event in Europe i could get some time.

It's because of total cost or for another reason?

> But the main problem is who organizes something like that. I not the kind of 
> person, but i would attend to an event like this.

Not much people want to organize a WOWODC anywhere in the world :-) I 
understand them, not much people want to spend > 35 hours to organize an event 
for next to nothing money wise.

> P.S. Head First Java is an extraordinary book for beginners!
> 
> Am 24.09.2011 um 21:04 schrieb Pascal Robert:
> 
>> 
>> Le 2011-09-24 à 14:38, Marius Soutier a écrit :
>> 
>>> Hi there,
>>> 
>>> I know this a difficult and opinionated topic, but I have been asked by a 
>>> friend what technology to choose for a Lean Startup (= 3 months until the 
>>> first minimum viable product). While he and I know WebObjects quite well, I 
>>> think it's safe to say there are only few people here in Germany who know 
>>> it at all. I'm personally convinced (and have seen this affirmed by the two 
>>> WOWODC talks about Lean Startup and Fluffy Bunny, excellent talks by the 
>>> way) that WO itself is a great technology to get things up and running very 
>>> fast. However, what if the business grows and he needs to hire more people?
>>> 
>>> My first question is - do you easily find skilled people who are willing to 
>>> learn WebObjects? What's your experience on this?
>> 
>> It's harder, especially since 2008... If they search for WebObjects on 
>> Google, they will find legacy documentation, stupid comments people make 
>> about the Apple Store being down because of WO, etc.  That's not helping... 
>> At least wocommunity.org is usually in the top 5 of the search listings.
>> 
>>> And the second question would be - how long does it take them to be 
>>> productive, i.e. write working code without much help. I'm assuming here 
>>> the person knows Java quite well and is eager to learn new stuff.
>> 
>> I would say 1.5 months.
>> 
>>> The alternative would be Ruby on Rails, which seems quite popular in 
>>> startups nowadays.
>> 
>> As long as it's not PHP (which I call the VisualBasic for the Web) :-) I 
>> guess it's all depends on the "quality" of developers you want to have. 
>> People who are willing to learn WO for a job are either people who are 
>> curious and want to learn something they don't already know, or are people 
>> who just want to get a job. People who choose a job because of buzzwords or 
>> "because it's what the industry use", that's not the kind of person I would 
>> hire, especially not for a startup.
>> 
>> But yes, we need to do something to get fresh blood. We are thinking of 
>> doing a two hours "Get to know WO" the Sunday before WWDC in SF so that iOS 
>> people can see Project Wonder, especially ERRest in action. I'm also trying 
>> to do two Project Wonder presentations at Confoo (local general Web 
>> conference, confoo.ca). We need more actions like this. 
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