CI and Portal Under your Tree
Posted On: 12/15/2006
My nephew loves LEGO. Me too. When I was a
lad, LEGO was just blocks. Now, they're more like
models. They have detailed assembly instructions
and hundreds of customized, single-use pieces.
Me, all I had was plain LEGO blocks, with one
exception: one of those early sets that made
something cool. A car, I think. Over time, the
good bits vanished and all I was left with was a
couple of wheels and some really neat odd
shapes. Years later, I found out why they
vanished: my mother admitted that rather than
pick them up, she simply vacuumed them up.
And now we come to the point: those really cool
bits are kind of like Portal. They came along with
something you bought, are absolutely essential to
making the object pictured on the box, but, on
closer inspection and through the passage of
time, don't seem very useful. I've worked on a
number of 8.x implementations. Everyone agrees
that Portal is cool, but no one has implemented
it. No one can agree on why they haven't
implemented either. My theory is that the web
and the ERP groups are separate warring tribes in
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