The internet is a small place
l learned the hard way that our past can haunt us and that people, good/bad deeds will meet us again. Mom said it is a small world, mom learned it from grandma and she did not use the internet. Therefore I am smiling to see that grand new way of the internet did not change the fundamentals of life.
Exhibit A:
Recently I was talking with the project lead at Lightning and asking about the direction of the initiatives they are involved in. He past my questions along to a third person who is pretty involved in Caldav too. Only to learn that he already know about fin although we did not know each other.
The amusing thing is that in a response to that post one of my previous associate posted a project where I wrote the WCAP support and left because wanted to address many of the shortcoming of the previous implementation. While the associate is not to be qualified, that is for the reader to do let the record be straight:
- While fin deployed and tested mostly in one appserver, there are no compile time dependencies. Therefore I argue it would run in any Java Enterprise 1.5 compliant container.
- Fin supports multiple calendars, and collections, a feature that would of required serious efforts in the previous code base to support, hence there is fin :)
- The focus of Fin is on the server side, a calendering provider for SOA. It integrates with existing clients, and I have no intention of creating new clients.
- My intention is to work with the calendaring clients like Lightning to leverage their experience, resources vs furtherer fragment and already very fragmented problem domain.
- And while I am glad to see that previous versions of my work is used, it is amusing that a few bug fixes without any regards to the underlying problems would constitute improvement or major deviation as it was represented.
Lesson:
- I guess I compete with myself, what I leaned by today that makes fin all the better solution.
- It is a very small world on the web, your/my past can haunt even faster. It is foolish to assume otherwise but hey: Nice Try!
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