Jake, you are definitely not alone in your criticism of IBM and Lotus. I have often felt like the lone voice of dissent in a sea of rabid zealots. I don't do web development so I can't contribute to that discussion, but I do find one thing interesting.
Notes has client-focused releases and server-focused releases. Where are the developer-focused releases? We get a few bones tossed our way in every release because they have to give us hooks to do the new client and server stuff, but we have never had anything substantial done to the Designer client since it was released in 1999.
I also applaud whoever said they need to take some of these things further. Calling some of these 70% complete is being generous. We've got Autocomplete that works just well enough to make me scream, the remote debugger crashes servers *sometimes*, and trying to figure out where you can use each language (JS, Java, LS, Formula) takes a decoder ring. And of course you can't use the language you want where you want to use it.
I'd rather not have these features at all than have the half-assed implementations we were given, but that's just me.
Jake, you are definitely not alone in your criticism of IBM and Lotus. I have often felt like the lone voice of dissent in a sea of rabid zealots. I don't do web development so I can't contribute to that discussion, but I do find one thing interesting.
Notes has client-focused releases and server-focused releases. Where are the developer-focused releases? We get a few bones tossed our way in every release because they have to give us hooks to do the new client and server stuff, but we have never had anything substantial done to the Designer client since it was released in 1999.
I also applaud whoever said they need to take some of these things further. Calling some of these 70% complete is being generous. We've got Autocomplete that works just well enough to make me scream, the remote debugger crashes servers *sometimes*, and trying to figure out where you can use each language (JS, Java, LS, Formula) takes a decoder ring. And of course you can't use the language you want where you want to use it.
I'd rather not have these features at all than have the half-assed implementations we were given, but that's just me.