User: Rob.Darwin

Very interesting...now find a "home"

On: Announcing Opa: Making Web Programming Transparent

Opa seems interesting, and I'd like to join the well-wishers in errm...wishing you well.

Talking about wishes, I'd be very interested in how you sell to the some of the key "stakeholders"
I'm slightly firing from the hip, so I would welcome any corrections and input (especially stuff that is not too abrasive...pretty please!)

(1) Developer
- Quick to learn
- Easy access to useful libraries
- Good debugging
- Ability to use favourite tools
- No nasty surprises

(2) Program manager
- Stuff that can be developed real quick (grumble..."why is it that developing for the web, seems so much slower that old VB was many years ago" ...put away rose tinted specs)
- A clear architecture to buy into...
- ...that can be used for a clear set of uses
- That integrates into other systems
- That does not require too much investment prior to delivering some initial useful results

(3) Operations
- Reliable
- Monitorable (I know my spell check doesn't like the word either!)
- Auto deployable
- Scalable
- Runs on our standard Linux Image (in our case Ubuntu, but everyone has their own preferences, which are without doubt RIGHT)
- Detectable and graceful degradation
- Some clear benchmarks, and optimisation techniques

(4) Users
- attractive
- easy to use
- responsive

And in a couple of apps that we are considering
(1) A real-time dash board
(2) some web components that our dealers can plug into their websites to sell our stuff
- something that can fit within other session models
- Something that we can embed into some javascript so that our dealers can copy and paste it into their sites
- Allows for good css restyling

Hope that this helps, and maybe you might do a FAQ post given some of the issues that are raised here!