Re: svn commit: r928451 - /ofbiz/trunk/framework/widget/templates/htmlScreenMacroLibrary.ftl

Posted by Adrian Crum-2 on Mar 28, 2010; 6:44pm
URL: http://ofbiz.116.s1.nabble.com/Re-svn-commit-r928451-ofbiz-trunk-framework-widget-templates-htmlScreenMacroLibrary-ftl-tp1694238p1694320.html

--- On Sun, 3/28/10, Adam Heath <[hidden email]> wrote:
> That's not a useful response.  "Just trust me" is not
> helpful.  If you
> know why something will work, and someone obvious
> doesn't(me), then
> just go ahead and explain it.  Doing a bunch of
> hand-waving just gives
> the hand-waver a feeling of superiority, and makes the
> receiver feel
> inferior.

One of the things I try to do whenever the opportunity presents itself, is to meet other OFBiz developers in person. I believe doing so helps us understand each other better.

One of the drawbacks with mailing list collaboration is the inability to know the other collaborators personally. That leads to messages having feelings and motives assigned to them that don't belong there. This is one of those cases.

I don't feel superior to any other developer. In my mind we are all peers. In this particular reply, I was viewing *you* as being superior - you are a programming guru in my opinion. When you seemed puzzled by (what I thought was) a very simple code construct, I *assumed* you just hadn't looked at it carefully enough and I was sure it would make sense if you just looked at it again, or tried it out on your local copy. I would have explained it in more detail to anyone else.

I apologize if I made you feel slighted. That wasn't my intention. It is never my intention to offend anyone or to appear to take a superior role. If I come across that way, then I am not aware of it and I truly appreciate it when someone points it out to me.

-Adrian