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At Lotusphere you could see something
that would make your Domino Developer heart beat faster.
Maureen actually demonstrated the integration of Domino Designer and Eclipse.
She doesn't seem to be threatened, that Wild Bill promised to kiss her
feet on release <g>. However what was absent from the 'phere was
a timeline or official commitment when this will happen. I guess
all Domino developers would appreciate the power of Domino Designer for
Eclipse. So I created a little petition. Head over to Domino
Designer for Eclipse, sign the
petition and spread the word!
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Posted by Jack Dausman At 06:26:34 On 02/08/2007 | - Website - |
Why are we making a mountain out of a molehill? http://www.johndavidhead.com/jhead/johnhead.nsf/dx/why-are-we-making-a-mountain-out-of-a-molehill
Coming out of Lotusphere2007 in Orlando last month, I was pretty excited to be a Notes developer. Notes 8 is the rebirth of the client I love to develop for, Lotus Component Designer was giving me Domino Designer-like functionality while developing for other IBM products, and Maureen demoed the progress on the project to rebuild Domino Designer within Eclipse. Her session showed a bunch of cool stuff, including the following screenshots
I had even heard rumors that there were other resources besides Maureen on the project and we might not have to wait until the Notes/Domino "NEXT" releases for this. Wow!
So now that we are back from sphere, it seems that some people are impatient. One of them, Stephen Wissel, created a site and poll around the new Designer. Either to push them to release it sooner or just show support, to me it came across as a bit ungrateful. They are working on it, what more do we need? But, hey, the community is much larger than one person, so I let it go.
Until now
So while I think the poll was created in desire to support IBM, then end result is that a bad perception has been created. I worry now that IBM will shut down all talk about prototyping features that are not scheduled for release. This does not only effect Maureen, but people like Jeff Eisen, who demoed calendar overlays as something he was playing with for a future version.
Moral of the story: Do not look a gift horse in the mouth. Especially when the horse pays your bills.
Posted by John Head At 01:01:53 On 02/15/2007 | - Website - |
Don't underestimate the transistion period. For example, I believe that features typical for an eclipse backed software dev process like concurrent version systems (cvs/subversion), checkers for following of code quality metrics (checkstyle/pmd), test driven development with junit or testng, do have a positive impact on my productivity and satisfaction in my job. Nevertheless there is an adaption path to use those effectively. I know from own experience. And the earlier the interested have the chance to start the walk the better as long as the product is stable.
So lets not see it only as threat, but also as a chance. Computers might be re-configured over the weekend. Developers certainly not.
peace, Axel
Posted by Axel Janssen At 18:44:49 On 02/15/2007 | - Website - |