OSCMS 2007 was hosted at Yahoo!, and it was one of the first developer conferences I made it to after moving to the Bay area. My takeaway from the session on Pipes was that it was a bit ... advanced (at least it was for me at that time). Pipes was not necessarily "forgettable", but it wasn't quite to the place it would induce radical inspiration. The inspiration kinda got lost in the bog of over-engineered complex details.
This seems to be a common trend among Yahoo's many assets: build almost-prototypes of platforms that absolutely ooze potential energy. But then waste that energy by stretching it in too many directions at once, not getting very far.
Absolutely.
OSCMS 2007 was hosted at Yahoo!, and it was one of the first developer conferences I made it to after moving to the Bay area. My takeaway from the session on Pipes was that it was a bit ... advanced (at least it was for me at that time). Pipes was not necessarily "forgettable", but it wasn't quite to the place it would induce radical inspiration. The inspiration kinda got lost in the bog of over-engineered complex details.
This seems to be a common trend among Yahoo's many assets: build almost-prototypes of platforms that absolutely ooze potential energy. But then waste that energy by stretching it in too many directions at once, not getting very far.