Re: A success story
Re: A success story
- Subject: Re: A success story
- From: Chuck Hill <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 15:10:10 -0700
Georg,
Thanks for posting this. Stories like this are important to get
people into WebObjects and to keep the faint of heart there.
Chuck
On Jun 11, 2007, at 11:52 PM, Georg Tuparev wrote:
WWDC times, rumor times :-)
No, folks, I am not starting yet another death of WO prediction. We
had enough of them in the past. In contrary, for the folks that so
often ask questions if it is worth starting to learn WO I'd like to
write few encouraging words by describing how much our team was
able to achieve just in 2-3 years. We delivered successfully three
large systems, and a handful of smaller projects. I will describe
with few words just the large projects.
1. Few years ago all large dutch banks agreed on a new standard for
exchanging financial documents (invoices, statements, dunning
letters, orders, and finance reports), and corresponding protocols
for initiating transactions if documents require it (e.g. payment
of an invoice). The exchange of documents takes place between banks
and other large organizations (e.g. insurance and utility
companies, large online retailers, etc.) Receiver of these
documents are the users of the electronic (web-based) banking
software. Two ASPs received a license to act as clearing houses for
these documents, and for one of them (bluem.nl) we wrote the
software. It is expected that after the system is adopted by all
banks (hopefully within 12 months) it will generate transactions
worth tens of billions of euros every year.
The system already runs for about half year, and we add new
features each month. Apple Netherlands put the story on their site
a while ago. If you can read dutch, here it is:
http://www.apple.com/nl/business/profiles/bluem/index.html
Probably everyone can imagine the complexity of the system, so I
will not go into further details. Will only mention that the
combined developer teams implementing just the simple interface for
the banks had many orders of magnitude more developers, and
required more time than our team.
2. Again together with Bluem we developed and deployed already
twice a telecom billing and online data presentment and analyses
system that takes raw call data, prepares invoices, phone
statements, and statistics and make them available to the users in
PDF and csv formats, or online.
3. We finished the first phase of a system to control a network of
robotic astronomical observatories. As far as we know, this is not
only the first and only such software for Mac, but it has many
unique features not seen with any other astronomy package. Few
weeks ago MacResearch published a short interview about this:
http://www.macresearch.org/
macs_in_astronomy_an_interview_with_georg_tuparev
Tomorrow at the WWDC we will present a poster about MONET (Sci.
Dev. Poster session at 6:30) and will be happy to tell you more or
give you a short demo.
In addition to these projects we will be releasing several new
applications.
Here few facts about our team and the technologies we use...
1. Team size: started with 5 developers, now 12.
2. We are agile. XP is what we love, but cannot manage 100%
3. We use a mixture of WO, Cocoa, C, and scripts. On average WO is
about 50%, and Cocoa - 30%. but this varies from project to project.
4. Database is always FrontBase
5. We use Xcode only (and hope not to use Eclipse, but this seams
less and less possible)
6. We do not use Wonder directly (because we started long time ago
and use somehow incompatible design), but we learn constantly from
it, and borrow many ideas
We are following very closely new developments, and we are very
confident, that we could not finish the simplest of the projects I
mentioned above if we had to use other technologies or frameworks.
For this we are very very thankful to all these fantastic and smart
folks at Apple!!! Also we are very thankful to many folks on this
list, who either directly or indirectly helped us with concrete
problems or just with their contributions. Very special thanks to
Chuck, Mike, and Anjo!!! We hope in the future to have a bit more
time and to be able to start posting again to this list, or
contributing by making parts of our software available to the
community.
enjoy the WWDC
Georg Tuparev
Tuparev Technologies
Klipper 13
1186 VR Amstelveen
The Netherlands
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