Hmm. Your answers to #2 remind me: over the next couple of months, I'm going to be doing a massive rework of my schemas and APIs. The first half-year has been spent mainly getting my feet under me in a lot of ways, and getting to understand the problem space for CommYou. In the second half, though, I'm going to be trying to build a real *platform* for conversation: moving away from the emphasis on the UI and putting more on the APIs. In the long run, I'm hoping to focus more on using the servers in a conversation ecology, and decouple the front ends from that
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APIs: yes, I'd like to be in on that. Thanks for asking. (What language are you writing this in, by the way?)
Storytelling: I suspect that at least initially I need coaching and in-person teaching. I'm a beginner. Eventually I could presumably benefit from something that's not so hands-on, but I'm not really sure how to get the baseline level of skill yet. Drawing an analogy to music, once you know the basics of playing your instrument and the like I can help you even if we aren't in the same place, but it's hard for me to teach you basic technique, intonation, etc from afar. I could be wrong, of course (see previous "beginner" comment), but I suspect the same is true with storytelling. Eventually, though, I hope to be able to take you up on those referrals.
(What language are you writing this in, by the way?)
Java. I spent a long time last year taking an acid look at the alternatives, but none entirely grabbed me. I dislike Perl (it's just a very messy language, and the OO capabilities are poor), and have no particular fondness for Python. I *love* Ruby, but it's still a bit immature -- in particular, its threading model is just plain brain-dead, and I don't trust a language that doesn't have good built-in thread support.
So Java won on the basis of maturity and tool support. I *may* wind up switching a bunch over to Groovy, which is kind of Java++ and appears to fix the things that irritate me about Java, but that hasn't happened yet...
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Storytelling: I suspect that at least initially I need coaching and in-person teaching. I'm a beginner. Eventually I could presumably benefit from something that's not so hands-on, but I'm not really sure how to get the baseline level of skill yet. Drawing an analogy to music, once you know the basics of playing your instrument and the like I can help you even if we aren't in the same place, but it's hard for me to teach you basic technique, intonation, etc from afar. I could be wrong, of course (see previous "beginner" comment), but I suspect the same is true with storytelling. Eventually, though, I hope to be able to take you up on those referrals.
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Java. I spent a long time last year taking an acid look at the alternatives, but none entirely grabbed me. I dislike Perl (it's just a very messy language, and the OO capabilities are poor), and have no particular fondness for Python. I *love* Ruby, but it's still a bit immature -- in particular, its threading model is just plain brain-dead, and I don't trust a language that doesn't have good built-in thread support.
So Java won on the basis of maturity and tool support. I *may* wind up switching a bunch over to Groovy, which is kind of Java++ and appears to fix the things that irritate me about Java, but that hasn't happened yet...
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