Comments on: SBL Bible Software Shootout

By: Greek Skills Test for Bible Software | BibleTech Blog

Greek Skills Test for Bible Software | BibleTech Blog — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 18:37:45 +0000

[...] contributions rather than complaining, and following up on some blog-chatter about the recent “shootout” at SBL, i’d like to tackle a nice “pop quiz” i recently found here about keeping your [...]

By: Michele

Michele — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 18:27:38 +0000

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By: Hebrew Scholar

Hebrew Scholar — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 12:46:23 +0000

Very interesting to read this post, although I wasn’t able to attend SBL. Everyone has their favourite Bible software. Mine is BibleWorks However, hopefully people will spend more time actually reading and studying the Hebrew, Aramaic and Greek texts as they do playing around with all the features of the software. We should spend our time studying the Scriptures, rather than studying Bible software.

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By: Rubén Gómez

Rubén Gómez — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:24:06 +0000

I would also like to see more shootouts, and I think the net is a good place to host one for everyone to see. Do you think the developers would be willing to take on the challenge? Hint, hint…

By: Donovan

Donovan — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 10:18:57 +0000

Thanks for this good round up of posts on the SBL shootout. I agree with the sentiments about the defensiveness and often been bewildered by some of the comments.

The reality of software:

1. No software package does everything the best way. The design ethos of a product design has it’s strengths and weaknesses. Some users will be completely satisfied with one product. I think there can be very good cases for having two. I know a good handful of users who own two (and sometimes more) Bible software products and for very good reasons.

2. When people say another product’s UI or design is rubbish, there is a certain about of this is subjective. The reason for this is that all of us in according to our skills and talents develop workflows to do certain tasks. Some software packages better than with who we are than others. I have seen people do amazing things with technically inferior software simply because it complemented the personality really well.

I for one think the SBL shootout was pure genius. Getting developers like that in the same room will result in more cool tools as they walk away thinking about future development and enhancements. This is what it is all about. Better tools for better Bible study. I really hope they continue to have more shoot outs in the future.