Le 2011-09-24 à 17:27, ISHIMOTO Ken a écrit :

> Hi there too,
> 
>>> 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?
> 
> Maybe the total cost. The flight cost about 800-1000 Euro and that is a lot 
> for only 3 days^^

If WOWODC didn't have concurrent sessions and instead is 4 or 5 days, would 
more people come?

> Then the Hotel and WOWDC, Eating and we speak about USD 2000.-/person
> 
>>> 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.
> 
> I am OK to do that for WOWODC 2013 in Europe, and maybe 2015 in Japan.
> 
> Let me think about that...
> 
> I did a WebObjects Bootcamp this Summer 2011 in Hiroshima (1 day) Japan and 
> Fukuoka(4 days) Japan.
> 
>>> 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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