Feuer
Adam Feuer has new a new Tinderbox weblog and has designed a fresh Tinderbox badge:
He writes:
I like to think I'm sophisticated when it comes to hypertext software. So why did I find Tinderbox so hard to understand? It was humbling. Which is not a bad thing! But I was still clueless. Tinderbox was still too different from anything else I've ever worked with. So I let the program sit there and gather dust.
Then, I read on Mark Bernstein's blog that he was having a Tinderbox Weekend in San Francisco- he was going to get some people together to talk about and show what they did with the program. And eat good food, drink good wine, and have a great time in some cool little hotel in SF's Nob Hill district. More of a party than a training. I signed up, almost completely on intuition.
I mean, what am I doing paying $800 in transportation, lodging, and training fees to learn to use a $150 program?!? What's wrong with this picture? It didn't make sense.
But let me tell you, it paid off. I did learn how to start using Tinderbox. Those few handles that Elin, Doug, Mark, and others provided for using the program were worth the cost alone. And the paradigm...! I'm still trying to get my mind around the concepts, but now they're more inside me now rather than outside... and they are useful.