We were lucky enough to have Howard pop up to visit Intelligent Works here
in Ottawa last weekend and give us a very informative (~4 hour) session
focused on Tapestry and Hivemind.

I asked Chris Justus, a consultant working with Tapestry here, to jot down
his thoughts..

Geoff

Geoffrey Longman
Intelligent Works Inc.

P.S. I agree totally, bit I must add that the Hivemind portion of the
session was equally as informative!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Chris Justus" <cjustus <at> alceatech.com>
To: <glongman <at> intelligentworks.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2003 11:26 AM
Subject: Howard's talk...

> I've been working with Tapestry for 6 months, and we have been building
> an application that currently consists of about 100 tapestry pages and 50
tapestry
> components... Howard's talk was good in terms of explaining some ideas
> and concepts behind Tapestry.  Having worked with other frameworks in
> the past, I consider the idea of using the jwcid attribute a real
> solution to a very real problem of having designers and developers work
> together on an application...
>
> In addition: We are also now at the cusp of some major work in which I
> was considering using a body of 30 pages, 30 templates, and 30 class
> files as a base for 2 other areas of the application - this would result
> in the creation of 200 additional files within the project.  I spent 3
> minutes explaining our application to Howard, the internal object model,
> and the layout of our tapestry pages... In just a minute or two, Howard
> had suggested several alternatives to the plan that was going to be
> implemented, which will save us tens of hours up front, and likely
> hundreds of hours in maintenance down the road... This provides a very
> quantifiable savings on the order of tens of thousands of dollars in
> development and maintenance.
>
> Overall Howard's visit was very beneficial... Anyone doing serious
> Tapestry work would be wise to meet with Howard and get feedback on how
> they are implementing various aspects of their application...
>
> Chris
>

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