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Saturday, June 23, 2007

What gets us going

Coders get happy for two reasons: one is when you finish typing your code, press the Compile button and see the rewarding "Compile succeeded (0 errors)" message. The other is when you receive something like this from someone who actually uses your product:
I have been reviewing WebORB Enterprise extensively and have an interesting opportunity to be coding multiple weborb-based projects at the same time, some with WebORB Professional with an existing Data Access Layer, and some new projects where I have been using WDMF. To sum up my experience and feelings towards WDMF: GENIUS!!! I can't even believe how fast I can build applications with this that blow everything else out of the water. This completely redefines the notion of Rapid Application Development and makes it just plain sexy. I didn't realize initially how much time this would save me, but the savings are tremendous, not just on the initial setup, but throughout the entire engineering cycle of the app. A great example is a custom Tree that's pulling data lazily from the DB. With my existing DAL setup and custom DataManager I had to write something like 300 lines to setup the DataManager, setup all the event handling for the services and datamanager, convert my services to singleton collection implementations, bind to the tree, build a custom ITreeDataDescriptor, deal with some paging logic and interate through everything to find the next tree. With WDMF, I did all the same stuff in about 4 lines of custom code....
ActiveRecords.NodeObjects.findByParentID(curNode.NodeID)... WOW!!!!!
It will take a little while to explain to the world how amazing a revolution this kind of thing is, but not only can I be actually programming the real stuff of the application in a number of minutes (already the precedent set with WebORB), but now even writing that application code is 20x faster. Great job, you have a won a major fanboy.
Keep up the good work and I appreciate the fact that I am one of the fastest, most robust, and impressive developers out there just because I found you guys.
While some companies choose to pay people to get positive quotes, we get them naturally, and this really makes our day.

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