On Apr 29, 2008, at 6:54 PM, Keith Ledbetter wrote:

>
> On Apr 29, 2008, at 1:41 PM, Scott J. Lopez wrote:
>
>> I see a lot of messages out there requsting Yojimbo did a lot of
>> things it doesn't and I just want to tell the developers I'm quite
>> happy with Yojimbo the way it is.
>
> I think Yojimbo is a fine little application, too. It's just a
> shame that because it lacks one feature (nested collections) I had
> to delete it from my hard drive. I keep monitoring online, and I
> keep hoping that one day that needed feature will be added. People
> with as much data as I have can't live without nested collections.


Not to pick on Keith (at all)...

It's almost universal that people who want something new or changed in
a piece of software offer a solution (nested collections, for example)
rather than an explanation of the problem they're trying to solve that
they think their solution addresses. Since the developers have a much
deeper, broader and nuanced awareness of what is and is not possible
(or even desirable) than the public at large does, it's in best
interest of you, as the person who want the change, to couch the
request in terms of what you want to achieve rather than the method
you imagine would allow you achieve the goal you have in mind.
Engineers LOVE to solve problems...

One of the biggest challenges in the world of the Decider of What the
New Version Does is inverting all these solution requests into problems.

My 67¢ (used to be 2¢, but with the devaluation of the peso, I mean
dollar)...
--
Lorin Rivers
Mosasaur: Killer Technical Marketing <http://www.mosasaur.com>
<mailto:lrivers@mosasaur.com>
512/203.3198 (m)



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