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I kept telling Tobias (the head of Tavendo, the company behind WAMP) to change the name years ago but he said he already invested too much in it (registration a
by sametmax 8y ago
I kept telling Tobias (the head of Tavendo, the company behind WAMP) to change the name years ago but he said he already invested too much in it (registration at IANA, tutorial, the fact this is actually WAMP 2, so there was a WAMP 1...).
Basically, yep, it's bad, but this ship has sailed.
- giancarlostoro 8y agoI hate to say it but first that sounds highly too stubborn that I wanna say it sounds incompetent. Secondly there's still room to rename and if they want it to go anywhere sooner is bettee than later. Call is Weasel for all anyone cares (yeah I know IceWeasel... But still better than flat out WAMP). The worse part is some people might completely dislike WAMP altogether given some Unix only devs out there and might never see this due to poor naming.
- sametmax 8y agoGood technical people are rarely good at communication. Tobias is a very good, German, technician.
- Longhanks 8y agoIn my experience, really good technical people excel in communication, because that's part of how they became so good. There's a difference between being talented and being an outstanding technician.
- giancarlostoro 8y agoThis is true, and I believe sometimes developers should yield certain decisions to somebody else, or be willing to take useful advise (and act upon it after really considering it), you could really go from very good to exceptional if you can get over the hump of "but I already named it a thing", or whatever mental roadblock. As well as you don't have to change your code (reasonable reason not to 'change names'), it can be called 'WAMP' under the hood, but market it as something else, it is the 'WAMP' core if anything, but also clarify that it's nothing to do with Windows, Apache, MySQL or PHP (unless it's related to any of those). At this point if he called it the 'WAM Protocol' it might be a little better.
- ofrzeta 8y agoThat didn't stop them from renaming the Company from Tavendo to Crossbar.io, though, it seems. As they are advertising the protocol as "open Web Application Messaging Protocol" they might as well abbreviate it OWAMP. Just sayin'...