Raible Designs

Wednesday November 27, 2002

Struts Consultants The Struts Committers are thinking of removing the Struts Consultants listing. I've been listed on this page since last year, but it really hasn't done anything for me. I get a few hits per day from it, but I've never got any clients or work from it. My gigs always seem to come the old fashion way - through connections. The reason I'm writing this post is because of a message this morning, from Ted Husted (a Struts Committer):

We originally setup the page because people kept asking. So if we 
take it down, we need to keep something up saying that we don't do 
that. Rather than waste a page, we might just add a section to the 
Powered By page.

Then what about the Powered By page? 

I think we need one, but we might want to restrict it to sites 
that are willing to write up some sort of case-study to go with 
the listing, so it would be more than just a URI. I'm thinking of 
a site preface page with a screen shot or two that talks about how 
the site came to be written, and then finally a link to the site 
itself. 

Realistically, people are looking for war stores and testimonials 
here, rather than just a link list. So this would become a "Struts 
Showcase" section, rather than just a Powered By directory.

Of course, there would still be a list, but it could include an 
introductory paragraph (from the site preface page), and link to a 
page about the site, and then to the site itself. (Or not, if it 
is an internal site with a really good write-up :)

I can work something up a couple as examples. We might also try 
twisting dIon's arm for something regarding the Pizza Hut site. I 
also remember a good post WRT the http://www.ipayment.co.za/ site. 
Application Servers, The Malamute Registry, BaseBeans 
(www.proj.com), Bug Track, FixaFest, Julianne Griffith, Raible, 
IPIP, Roller, and WindSurfing look like other likely suspects =:0)

How about if we start by reducing the PB list to these twelve I 
can then try to get a case study page up for one of my things to 
get that ball rolling. 

* http://www.application-servers.com/ 
* http://amalregistry.webhop.org/ 
* http://www.proj.com/ 
* http://www.bug-track.com/ 
* http://www.fixafest.nu/ 
* http://www.ipipi.com/ 
* http://www.juliannegiffin.com/ 
* http://www.pizzahut.com.au/ 
* http://www.raibledesigns.com/ 
* http://www.rollerweblogger.org/ 
* http://www.ipayment.co.za/ 
* http://www.windsurfpassion.com/

-Ted.

Cool - I feel the love! You can follow this thread here. Hopefully, by creating struts-xdoclet, this site will serve as a war story the development and evolution of a struts webapp. I encourage any of you to jump in and help, or at least send features/ideas that you'd like to see implemented. Posted in Java at Nov 27 2002, 08:26:45 AM MST Add a Comment