Wiki wonders why we insist on calling ourselves geek-level technical, and seems afraid we don't sound business-minded enough. I'm not going to say there is a relation between our focus (or at least the way the way we approach business) and this mail, but I'm having warm and fuzzy feelings nonetheless. I'm pretty sure us geeks solved a real business problem over there.
Mmmmm. Congrats on xReporter and all - you deserve it. But I would still never call myself a geek - maybe because I have a professional disorder of thinking about the way that other people would perceive that term. I pretty sure that - while Sean McKaharay surely isn't one of those people - quite a few other people would be "offended". So: as long as you consciously target the Seans of the world, this definitely is NOT a problem. If you want to target other, more "commercially" minded?, people, "geek" audiences are extremely limited, not?
Enfin: we drinken er nog ene ...
About that "geek" thing, at least he is rather honest about himself, not?
;-)
I don't know why everyone gets upset with the word "geek". The biggest "geek" in the world is Bill Gates and I don't think anyone in the world right now wouldn't mind being him. There is alot more things I wouldn't want to be called other then geek. Anyway, xreporter is one of the best things to happen to xml and java.
Sean