First Bay Area Tapestry Users group is this Thursday in SF

[Jordan Redner <jr...@shopping.com>]

Hello all,

The first Bay Area Tapestry Users group is set for this Thursday.  

Date:     Thursday, April 21st, 2005
Time:     6:30pm
Location: The Thirsty Bear in San Francisco
(http://www.thirstybear.com/)


>In the first meeting I'm thinking of having it at a nice bar/restaurant
or >something in SF just to see what the interest level is.  Then,
decide as a >group what the next steps would be if we want to drill in a
bit more and >share some ideas, etc...  I'll be picking up the
drinks/appetizer tab >within reason.  (Yes, that means free beer.)

I'm looking forward to meeting all you Tapestry enthusiasts and getting
something going.


Jordan 


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Hello everyone, this is a follow-up for an upcoming Bay Area Tapestry
Enthusiast/Users Group.

>In the first meeting I'm thinking of having it at a nice bar/restaurant
or >something in SF just to see what the interest level is.  Then,
decide as a >group what the next steps would be if we want to drill in a
bit more and >share some ideas, etc...  I'll be picking up the
drinks/appetizer tab >within reason.

Date:     Thursday, April 21st, 2005
Time:     6:30pm
Location: The Thirsty Bear in San Francisco
(http://www.thirstybear.com/)

Hope to see you there, and please feel free to drop me an email off-list
if you would like me to send you a reminder and to give me an idea of
total head count I can expect.
 

Thanks very much!

 
Jordan


-----Original Message-----
From: Jordan Redner
Sent: Thursday, March 03, 2005 6:41 PM
To: 'Tapestry users'
Subject: Tapestry users in the Bay Area??

Hi,

I work at Shopping.com and we've just rebuilt 3 major public-facing
applications using Tapestry.  The old versions were Perl/Mason.  

With a core team of 3 strong Java developers, 1 CSS/HTML person, and 1
Oracle DB developer, we rebuilt what was estimated to take 4 man years
in 4 months with some time to spare.  I seriously don't think we would
have been able to pull this off in Struts/JSP which was the runner up
choice for us.  In fact I think it could have been a disaster, taking
much longer.  The application is fairly complex and includes very rich
I18N functionality such as rendering of strings in various language
(from resource bundles & from the database), rendering currencies,
collation by language, etc...  Anyway, it was a huge application, and it
has been a huge success.  I am happy about it and needless to say, so is
the business.

I've used many frameworks and have been doing web development for years
in the Bay Area.  Previously, I've managed and implemented large
projects in ASP, .NET with back-end Java components.  I actually like
the class-backing-a-page design of .NET which is similar to Tapestry,
except for the fact that ASPX has the same pitfalls as JSP, and it's not
Java. 

Anyway, I'd like to share the good experience I've had with using
Tapestry, and help get the word out about this framework.  I'd like to
host a couple (or more depending on interest, or where it leads us)
get-togethers somewhere in the SF Bay Area to talk about Tapestry and
just see what we can get going, if anything.  Even if it will help
others learn more about Tapestry, or help get simple questions answered
for those who aren't using it yet.

In the first meeting I'm thinking of having it at a nice bar/restaurant
or something in SF just to see what the interest level is.  Then, decide
as a group what the next steps would be if we want to drill in a bit
more and share some ideas, etc...  I'll be picking up the
drinks/appetizer tab within reason.


Anyway, please email me back (off-list) if you are interested in
attending, and I'll be sure to email you when & where the event will
take place.  I'm open to location suggestions, so feel free to also
email a recommendation.


Thanks,


Jordan




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