{"id":502,"date":"2009-03-30T10:13:21","date_gmt":"2009-03-30T18:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dougmccune.com\/blog\/?p=502"},"modified":"2009-03-30T10:13:21","modified_gmt":"2009-03-30T18:13:21","slug":"interview-up-on-infoq","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dougmccune.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/30\/interview-up-on-infoq\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview up on InfoQ"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.infoq.com\/news\/2009\/03\/doug-mccune-flex-development\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dougmccune.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/03\/screenshot102.jpg?resize=180%2C61&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"screenshot102\" align=\"right\" width=\"180\" height=\"61\" class=\"attachment wp-att-503 \" style=\"border:1px solid #333333; margin-left:15px;\" \/><\/a> An interview I did with Jon Rose of InfoQ was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infoq.com\/news\/2009\/03\/doug-mccune-flex-development\">just posted<\/a>. I talk about my experience with Flex component development, the Flex commuity as a whole, and the current state of the enterprise software market in general. I&#8217;ll probably get some shit for some of my comments about enterprise software where I say that it&#8217;s all &#8220;almost uniformly horrible&#8221; \ud83d\ude42 I don&#8217;t really mean to call <strong>all<\/strong> enterprise software crap, it was more a broad strokes comment, the kind I&#8217;m apt to make after a few beers. So if you&#8217;re making awesome enterprise software, don&#8217;t be mad at me, keep doing awesome stuff.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s just a small excerpt from the interview, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.infoq.com\/news\/2009\/03\/doug-mccune-flex-development\">read the entire thing at InfoQ<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Enterprise software is almost uniformly horrible, but there&#8217;s no reason for that. We&#8217;re seeing a &#8220;UX revolution&#8221; in RIA design, and for all the buzzword nonsense surrounding &#8220;user experience, &#8221; there&#8217;s something real happening in terms of the overall quality of the experience delivered by RIAs. We&#8217;ve seen some really great and innovative work in consumer RIAs, with a trend toward simple and intuitive interfaces. And yet in enterprise software this trend has barely even begun, it&#8217;s all still complex. I want to see enterprise applications treated like consumer apps, with the same attention to the user experience and with a consistent drive to simplify and make everything more intuitive. Complex systems don&#8217;t have to be presented with confusing software. But it takes more work to figure out the simple, elegant solution. It&#8217;s far cheaper and faster to make bad complex software than good simple software.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An interview I did with Jon Rose of InfoQ was just posted. I talk about my experience with Flex component development, the Flex commuity as a whole, and the current state of the enterprise software market in general. I&#8217;ll probably get some shit for some of my comments about enterprise software where I say that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[56],"class_list":["post-502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-flex","tag-interview"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougmccune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougmccune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougmccune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougmccune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougmccune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/dougmccune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":514,"href":"https:\/\/dougmccune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions\/514"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dougmccune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougmccune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dougmccune.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}