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by chime 6108 days ago
Thanks for linking to the video. I'm 10mins in and loving it.
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We need more guys like that. "We don't have refresh buttons in the user interface, because that would just be horrible."
Natural Gas traders love interfaces like that. My former boss did a release once, where you could do all of these incredibly impressive, perfectly orthogonal mass-changes to disparate object types. But what the users were really crazy about was the "Refresh" button he put in as a request.
Am I understanding the story correctly - did the refresh button actually do anything?
It did what you expected. But here's the kicker -- the system already had realtime refresh over JMS!