A couple of days ago I finally had my Google Wave sandbox account. Given that I just finished developing my very first robot, I thought I’d share some impressions on the whole thing. From the user-side, things are far from being ready. Some important features are still missing, just to name one you can’t remove user from a wave once they joined (or, alternatively, there’s no way to ignore a wave). Indeed, given that I joined several waves to try other people applications, I’m getting continuous notifications. But anyway, the whole thing is to me like a great development playground where I can make all the sorts of experiments.
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Google Wave impressions from a developer point of view
Posted by kratorius
on August 28th, 2009
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When the “Python Vs PHP” war matters
Posted by kratorius
on February 21st, 2008
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Yesterday I had a meeting with a customer about a new site I should develop for them. Since they’re a book publisher, they wanted an online book store. Apart from the technical details (the site isn’t as simple as you may believe, they need a lot of not-so-easy-to-do stuff), the most important point we focused on is the fact that they have an internal IT technician that handles all their computer needs. If you’re asking yourself why this matters, keep reading:
- me (to be precise, my company) stopped development of PHP sites about one year ago in favor of Python
- we release the web site’s code to them
- for this project, we haven’t been asked any kind of future support; this means that when the site is finished, we won’t touch the product anymore (unless they don’t pay us to do the modifies they need)
- but they don’t want to pay us to these modifies, because they have their internal IT technician
- their technician knows only PHP (and he never even known the Python’s existence until yesterday)