I have always considered the best feature of Mac OS X to be the lack of support for Notes/Domino, coming in well higher on the list than the robust Unix underpinnings, elegant interface, etc. I simply cannot exaggerate my dislike for Notes/Domino.
I had a CS degree and had done some C development professionally, but no web app development when I accepted the Notes/Domino development position. I swear, if I had not discovered Linux+Apache+MySQL+PHP with some codeplay on my own time, it would have taken YEARS for me to have grasped the coherent flow of a web application. Domino with its "agents" (which won't handle dynamically generated fields), @formula, and document-based DB model is the most obfuscated example of the web app development model that I could posibly imagine in my widlest and most esoteric musings. It is with great trepidation that I witness the ushering in of this foul beast, borne of the minds of a band of seething madmen from Lotus.
And Notes as a e-mail/PIM client sucks as well. It made it into a special in-depth section of the Interface Hall of Shame:
http://www.iarchitect.com/lotus.htm
It is a dark day for OS X indeed.
blakespot -- iPodHacks.com
All you folks that are in a reverie of joy in using Mac OS X would have been in a similar reverie if you had just given NeXTSTEP a chance. It was (almost) all there, back as far as '88 when the OS rolled out. OS X, for me, is (finally) validation that, YES, NeXTSTEP is better than sex!
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To the waters and the wild
With a faery, hand in hand,
For the world's more full of weeping
than you can understand.
blakespot
...a beowulf cluster of machines...dropped from the top of a building...onto the heads of the team that created Lotus Notes?
blakespot
Like you really need a hole in the head.
blakespot
I have always considered the best feature of Mac OS X to be the lack of support for Notes/Domino, coming in well higher on the list than the robust Unix underpinnings, elegant interface, etc. I simply cannot exaggerate my dislike for Notes/Domino. I had a CS degree and had done some C development professionally, but no web app development when I accepted the Notes/Domino development position. I swear, if I had not discovered Linux+Apache+MySQL+PHP with some codeplay on my own time, it would have taken YEARS for me to have grasped the coherent flow of a web application. Domino with its "agents" (which won't handle dynamically generated fields), @formula, and document-based DB model is the most obfuscated example of the web app development model that I could posibly imagine in my widlest and most esoteric musings. It is with great trepidation that I witness the ushering in of this foul beast, borne of the minds of a band of seething madmen from Lotus. And Notes as a e-mail/PIM client sucks as well. It made it into a special in-depth section of the Interface Hall of Shame: http://www.iarchitect.com/lotus.htm It is a dark day for OS X indeed. blakespot -- iPodHacks.com
All you folks that are in a reverie of joy in using Mac OS X would have been in a similar reverie if you had just given NeXTSTEP a chance. It was (almost) all there, back as far as '88 when the OS rolled out. OS X, for me, is (finally) validation that, YES, NeXTSTEP is better than sex!
blakespot
His name was Lee Moon. He still has a page, but I can't find it right now. blakespot