Congratulations To Eric Levine

WINE TALK
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Most of us received Eric’s e-mail regarding the changes he is going to be making to cellar tracker.

As I watched the video of the upcoming changes I was awed by the fact that there is nothing that I can think of that he did not take into consideration when redesigning his website. Normally I hesitate to embrace change but for once I am looking forward to it.

Thank you Eric, the new site is going to be awesome.

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Yeah, it looks great

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Congrats!

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+1. I added my more detailed comments in the other CT thread.

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You guys are all too kind. If you can believe, what I showed was the tip of the iceberg. Man I gotta get coding and this sucker out next month, but it is so nice to finally start to share some of what I have been up to for the past year.

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I’m stoked that we’re all going to get the chance to play with the new version in 2010.

Some of you guys post tasting notes I want to respond to :slight_smile:

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Cellartracker! = Best of breed

Sorry, Bob.

OK, so this comment is NOT posted exclusively on Wineberserkers. Just calling it like I see it. Doubt there is any way that what eRP has been developing has any chance of catching up now. The verdict is in. Well done, Eric!
[thumbs-up.gif]

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Watching the video at this very moment (well, it’s paused at this very exact moment…but you get the idea) and it looks damned impressive. The aesthetics are SO much more pleasant (not that the current ones are shabby, mind you). Looking forward to the new and improved CT in 2010.

[welldone.gif] Eric

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It does look awesome. Normally I am skeptical of simplifying GUIs (I wish I could still run DOS), but the new system looks like it’s retaining all of the power and precision with just a neater look.

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Thanks everyone. Now Alex, one small problem that in coding “NOT EQUALS” can be expressed as “<>” or “!=” so I see the above as CellarTracker is not best of breed – my fault for the stupid exclamation on the end of the name. What was I thinking???

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The question everyone wants answered though is can Eric get the new release out before MyWines makes it’s appearance on the scene.

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Gene, I wish, I really wish. I am setting my expectations that they will beat me out (well their V1 versus my V2 with 5 years between us).

BTW, part of the reason I am really excited is that along with the new design I am using new tools and techniques (JQuery and AJAX) that are so much more insanely cool and powerful and lend me the ability to do a lot of very neat stuff without a pull page reload. The goal being a MUCH faster app. I am generally very suspicious of client script, but FireFox, Chrome, Safari and IE6+ together with the core JQuery libraries is just awesome. Contrast that with eBob who are about to launch a Silverlight app. All due respect to MSFT, why would anyone build a site like this on top of an opaque blob? It does not fit the spirit of the web–it is what happens when you have a desktop developer who is forced to build a web thing and can’t let go. Whatever, their problem and not mine.

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I thought Bob had requested My Wines to be built in the open source version of vaporware?

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The video really is just a taste. After getting a couple of hours of walkthrough from eric I kept saying “when will it be done?” What’s very nicely done is that the design is very natural - if you catch yourself thinking ‘i want to do X’ (and if X is there) it’s very easy to do. The designer did a good job of UI/UX and Eric’s coded it in a nicely flowing way.

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I saw that you have shied away from flash which is smart. I really don’t like flash, it’s for lazy developers but particularly as a mac user the flash player build sucks; it drags my machine down like mad and sucks the battery life out my laptop. I am sure you have seen the HTML5 demos. Ajax is awesome but it sure has hampered reporting for advertisers. Flash will hopefully be laid to rest and agree with your philosophy about desktop developers who can’t let go. I am betting eBob’s Silverlight app will go down in flames.

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I gotta admit I was a little nervous when I first saw the screen shot of it. Then the more I watched the video and Eric demonstrating it, the more I liked it and I haven’t even tried it yet. I can’t wait to start using it…way to go Eric [winner.gif]

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I think WineBerserkers will be at 1million posts before that happens.

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Duke Nukem Forever baby, the official game of eBob.

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OK Eric, I don’t speak code, so you give me too much credit - but you have created a handy wine website not only works extremely well, but has become an invaluable point of reference for so many.
Lastly, I was referring to Cellartracker! as best of breed in a CNBC kind of sense. When that happens, all kinds of benefits are reaped. I think you stand to gain huge in 2010 and beyond.

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Alex, I know what you meant, thank you. Really very kind.