billwscott
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Sr. Director, UI Engineering, PayPal. Former Netflixer, Y! Pattern Curator. UX & Engineering Leader, Author, Speaker. Early Mac game developer (1985)
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Hmmm... That is kind of humorous, given that Nicholas was a consultant for us early last year as we started this effort. His team was also at PayPal today (from Box). That article was influenced to some degree by me…
Not from Spring. Spring is a solid reasonable framework. Unfortunately the modifications were enough to cause confusion, the Windows-biased support (not good support for Mac) for the dev environment, forcing people to…
will ping you.
I agree. I am actually not a Java hater :-) In fact I have built 4 distinct Java/JSP frameworks since 1996. You can really create some very nice frameworks with Java using some of what you say below. The Java framework…
You raise a great point. Another big challenge we have had is re-educating developers. This has been helped by finding the really sharp engineers internally and hiring new engineers that bring in the right DNA. I think…
I can assure you that I had to attack multiple fronts. Process is a big part of it (I brought in LeanUX methodology), but I can tell you (and painfully so) that if we had not changed the technology we would not be…
I think you are close to the mark. There are ways to work in Java/JSP environment that is pretty quick cycle time. But I will say that our experience at PayPal is the code is more terse, less files, npm so much better…