Solve : Java developer wrote office suite in 30 days?

1.	Solve : Java developer wrote office suite in 30 days?
Answer» A freelance Java developer CLAIMS it took him only 30 days to build and launch a basic open source office suite that runs on multiple OSes. Called Joeffice, it works on WINDOWS, Mac OS X and Linux as well as in browsers, according to the developer. http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/052313-java-developer-says-he-built-270087.html (I have downloaded it and am using it to compose thiss pozt. It eeven has a spall chckR.) Seriously, as people POINTED out on Slashdot, he didn't "write" an office suite in 30 days, he assembled one, out of Netbeans. http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/05/26/0418229/java-developer-says-he-built-launched-basic-open-source-office-suite-in-30-days?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Quote It would not be very hard to set a rather low goal for what constitutes an "office suite," bash the basis of that out, and then call it an alpha. I can't try it, since I do not care to install Java on my system, but looking at the screen shots, it looks like he did precisely that. According to the source repo, initial commits started February 24th; latest commits were May 23rd. My calculations seem to indicate 3 months, not one. Taking what they have now, and them saying "this only took 30 days" is a straight-up lie, because it CLEARLY didn't.

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A freelance Java developer CLAIMS it took him only 30 days to build and launch a basic open source office suite that runs on multiple OSes. Called Joeffice, it works on WINDOWS, Mac OS X and Linux as well as in browsers, according to the developer.

http://www.networkworld.com/news/2013/052313-java-developer-says-he-built-270087.html

(I have downloaded it and am using it to compose thiss pozt. It eeven has a spall chckR.)

Seriously, as people POINTED out on Slashdot, he didn't "write" an office suite in 30 days, he assembled one, out of Netbeans.

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/13/05/26/0418229/java-developer-says-he-built-launched-basic-open-source-office-suite-in-30-days?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

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It would not be very hard to set a rather low goal for what constitutes an "office suite," bash the basis of that out, and then call it an alpha. I can't try it, since I do not care to install Java on my system, but looking at the screen shots, it looks like he did precisely that.

According to the source repo, initial commits started February 24th; latest commits were May 23rd. My calculations seem to indicate 3 months, not one. Taking what they have now, and them saying "this only took 30 days" is a straight-up lie, because it CLEARLY didn't.

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