Freitag, 17. Mai 2002

Weekend thought Gummi bears defeat fingerprint sensors [via Adam]. Now what do we need to defeat iris scans?

Wireless - well maybe At Jax2002 they had wireless Internet access (which is pretty new for German conferences). The lower floor of the hotel and the 6th floor had WLAN access. Well nearly. Trouble was that it didn't work in all the rooms on the respective floors. So in one case we had to move to a room where the WLAN did work - which seems pretty funny really - considering the goal is supposed to be access from anywhere. I was going to take my iBook and then blog the sessions - but I didn't think they would have wireless access. And my PC does not have a WLAN card. Not yet anyway.

Weblogging Portal At Jax2002 we presented the Cocoon XML portal. We also showed how to add (just) a new stylesheet and change the layout of the portal completely. And then we showed how to integrate RSS feeds from Weblogs as coplets (portlets). That should make someone happy. Easy. Here is a screenshot of a Cocoon portal including the Weblog coplet in action. Still looking for other ideas for the O'Reilly presentation though.

Session quality At Jax2002 I attended quite a number of sessions and generally found the non-vendor sessions to be the best. The non-vendor speakers were generally better informed and able to answer "difficult" questions. One example for a vendor session was titled "Web services on xyz platform". The speaker (who was from xyz) started off by saying that he knew little about Web services .. duh.

Back from Jax2002 900 attendees in Frankfurt (more than last year!). Attended some very good sessions on various subjects such as JBoss, Struts, JCA. Some very bad sessions (unfortunately) as well. Our Cocoon XML Portal session had around 50 people there - altough it was the last session. Thanks to all that came! I have uploaded our session slides here.

Biz on Amazon The weblogging book I am tech-editing by Biz Stone is now up on Amazon for pre-order.