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November 25, 2004
Where the restaurants have no name
After a long day of meetings we headed into downtown Rome last night for another lengthy meal. I just can't get used to starting the meal at 9pm and finishing up at around midnight. At least I then got a spectacular drive through nighttime Rome and saw the colosseum again - at 1am.
The interesting part of last night was going down the side-street of a side-street to reach a restaurant. We had an excellent long meal of typical local food there. Now the restaurant didn't have any signs up on the outside and the windows were covered with metal grates that gave the impression of there actually not being a restaurant there. Hidden. But inside the place was full. Evidently you had to know about the restaurant ("I know the owner") and advertisement was just through word-of-mouth. This reminded me a bit about how people also latch on to good software even if the particular framework or tool isn't that well know.
"Build it and they will come".
Posted by Matthew at November 25, 2004 10:09 AM