Comments on Duffblog 2.0: Still a bit proud

Hi Brian Even I am seriously proud of JDev (well ...

2009-04-16T05:50:00.000-07:00

Hi Brian
Even I am seriously proud of JDev (well the UML modellers mainly) ... even though I wrote not a line of code for it (-:
It is the only thing I have ever worked on that ever really got out into the market (aside from a layout tool that I reviewed a bit for designer). I loved the early days too ... my first year was fairly blissful when I was working with Amy as my boss. I was able to take really dodgy builds and then do walkthroughs with expert testers and then email the clips straight back to you guys - so that we were actually chaning the design based on real data. For me that was the only time I have ever seen real extreme UI Design in practice and it was great. Although I made a few very poor design decisions which I got slammed for later ... putting multiple layers of tab buttons was one. But that was simply that there was no UI review process in place. I was so sad at the end of that year when the whole project got canned and so glad later that so much of was retrieved, revitalised and turned into product. Funny ol business software design.
Lisa

Hey Cedric :)Yeah, the auto bug reporter was, and ...

2008-12-12T10:56:00.000-08:00

Hey Cedric :)

Yeah, the auto bug reporter was, and still is a darned awesome thing. We never got the time or management buy in to try to externalize it in any way, unfortunately. Rob Clevenger did a partial rewrite of the infrastructure at one point with a mind to making it easier to externalize, but then he left and went to Google.

I always wanted to improve it - I wrote a manual bug filer for JDev that internal teams use a lot too (it can take screenshots etc), and I wanted to work toward merging all the feedback mechanisms. But then I also left and went to Google ;)

You did some really amazingly cool things in JDev that help make it still a pretty nice IDE in my eyes (and I feel like I have a pretty balanced view these days, since I'm working with Eclipse and IntelliJ most of the time now).

Brian

That's funny, I had the same impression yesterday ...

2008-12-12T05:23:00.000-08:00

That's funny, I had the same impression yesterday when I saw that 7% of the bugs fixed in the last release were automatically reported by JDeveloper itself.

It was also a personal project that started after a conversation with my friend Karl. I checked in without telling anyone and I am glad to see that many years later it is still reporting bugs.

At the time I left, it was reporting bugs within the intranet only but I think you were looking at making it work for external customers. Does it work now for external customers?