Feb 08
One of the interesting differences between a liberal opensource project, and a commercial endeavor is that you don’t know who is using your stuff.
If someone wants to extend or integrate beyond your work, they don’t need to deal with you to make it happen.
The fun side-effect is when you get the code drop. Out of the blue, someone sends you a message and says “oh, by the way, I just ported X to work with Y”.
This really keeps you on your toes, and it gives you a gift. The “oh man, that is so amazing that they did that work, now I don’t need too!” gift.
February 8th, 2008 at 9:33 pm
Great work ;) Always good to end the working week with a laugh.
You should make this into a poster and sell it. I’d hang it in our office!
February 11th, 2008 at 10:36 am
I hit this all the time. Very often, somone sends me a link to a site built in Tapestry and I’m just overwhelmed by how cool a site they’ve built. But more often, people are asking me “what major sites are using Tapestry” and I’m at a loss because people don’t share, and they aren’t under contract and talking to sales guys. And countering with “name a major site built in JSF” (or Struts 2 or Wicket or etc., etc., etc.) doesn’t cut it.