Mike,

I didn't get the email the it was jump all over MikeH day. But I'll partake anyways.

A good example of what JVP was discussing in terms of being able to discuss your rationale for a decision was a discussion I had the other day with a coworker. He was asking me what I thought about a list of potential classes he was thinking of attending. He liked my answer, part because of the answer, but a bigger part was that he liked my thinking for arriving at the answer. It was a view he hadn't considered, but agreed that it was a good rationale.

>I don't feel like I have to provide any proof of what I said because it was merely a prediction in a thread that had already gone hypothetical, but I suppose I can try.
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>>I guess the next question is what rationale are you basing your instinct on? What experiences have you had that leads you to this conclusion?


As far as application generators. I've read articles discussing the demise of the programmer due to generators for the last 20 years. They don't work. Plain and simple. And here I'm talking about generators made for low level programmers. I can't even imagine a generator that would work for the type of person you're talking about


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>Heres why, it all has to do with what I see in Web Services. If there are a gazillion sweet Web Services available, and only geeks know how to tap into them, they've failed. However, if my mom can sit down at a computer, and design an application by drawing a picture something like:
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>Application, I want you to download all the files off my digital camera when it gets plugged in, send them to Kodak to get them processed, drop the finished photos in My Pictures, and record this in My Document\myphotos.xls spread sheet so I can review it later with every other batch I've done.
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