only one word: cool 2008/4/11, Howard Lewis Ship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > My father in law is a brilliant marketer; he has this incredible > ability to pick up the jargon and terminology of whatever he's working > with. I remember picking him up from the airport once and he's > chatting about Tapestry and Spring and all that ... and he really > doesn't know what it all is (nor would anyone expect him to), but he's > able to use the correct words at the correct time and sound like he > knows how everything fits together. It's actually quite impressive. > > I kind of picture Rob as a dark mirror image of this; perhaps he's a > capable engineer with a weird streak and way too much time on his > hands, but based on just the postings here, my picture is of a > socially awkward 15 year old with acne (and maybe a stutter) who is > capable of stringing together words and phrases without really > understanding any of it. "Rob" gets a sense of power by trying to > "tweak" myself and the Tapestry community. Very sad ... I went though > a socially awkward stage (say, from age 12 to maybe 30 :-) ) but I > don't remember ever having this kind of destructive, lizard-brain > aspect. > > Mailing lists and blogs are not the real world; anyone who has the > time and obsessive energy to post troll comments the way "Rob" does > has pretty much discounted his voice. People whose opinion counts, > those who have something valuable to say or have actually accomplished > something worthwhile, are WAY too busy to get into a verbal ping-pong > match with "Rob" here or on some other forum. In that respect, Rob is > a somewhat positive force in the Tapestry world ... by getting the ire > up of the many, many Tapestry users who love the framework and can't > stand to see it bashed. > > The reality is that right now I'm sitting in an office at Formos and > every single person in the building is deriving their living directly > from Tapestry and the effort I've put into it over the last seven > years. And that's just the company I work for; Over the last few > years, I've trained perhaps 100 developers at many different companies > on how to use Tapestry. I'm likely to double that number in the next > year ... and that's just the tiny tip of the iceberg of Tapestry users > I know about. I'm excited about what I'm doing now, and I'm excited > about everything we have planned going forward. > > > On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 10:59 AM, Angelo Turetta > <[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > Martin Kersten wrote: > > > > > I start to like him. What a nice smile this little post put on my > face. I > > like him. He is like the guy who let the sun stay a bit higher if you > know > > what I mean. :-) > > > > > > > You lucky !!! > > <joking> > > I, on the opposite, just hope someone would 'accidentally' pass over > him on > > a 16-wheeler. I'd do it myself, except I have no truck driving license, > and > > I won't happen to pass near Utrecht anytime soon :) > > </joking> > > > > What a pity it's always idiots that happen to have so much free time. I > > just barely manage to spare the time to read the lists I'm interested > in, > > while he follows tapestry's just to insult Howard and crunch balls to > all > > the others... > > > > > > > > > > > -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- > > > Von: Rob Smeets [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Gesendet: Freitag, 11. > April > > 2008 16:34 > > > An: Tapestry users > > > Betreff: Re: Getting Answers on the User List > > > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > -- > Howard M. Lewis Ship > > Creator Apache Tapestry and Apache HiveMind > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
-- with regards Sven Homburg http://tapestry5-components.googlecode.com
