Mittwoch, 14. Mai 2003

Evening Keynote and program: Sitting in the evening keynote on MDA (Wim Bast, Compuware). After dinner this evening, Pier Fumagalli will be talking about Apache. And I'm still the only person in the keynote with a laptop on his lap!

Cocoon coverage: Already, and there is still a day to go at Jax - Cocoon is here! It's is being mentioned in sessions that don't even directly talk about it. Christian talked about using Cocoon to parse SOAP messages in his SOAP talks. Lots of peope are talking to us about using Cocoon, or deciding on whether to use Jetspeed or the Cocoon portal. Of course the decision is easy :-) . Last year it was completely different - Cocoon was in a niche - and a small one at that. This year it's nearly on a par with Struts, Jetspeed and the other more "popular" projects. The conference people are talking about raising the number of Cocoon sessions next time round.

SOAP Session: Went to see Christian's SOAP session which was rather good. Apart from just showing slides he added bits and pieces like hacking an example into notepad or doing a hands-on example by passing pages around in the audience.

Meeting people: Met and chatted to Christian Gross yesterday. He'll be at OSCON as well. So, my first date for a breakfast is set.

Lunchbreak: Lunchbreak at Jax and my presentations are over. Time to relax :-). RSS and Cocoon was good and around 20 people attended. Syndicating enterprise data with RSS is a theme where the interest is sure to grow. And Cocoon is the ideal platform for setting up enterprise wide RSS infrastructures.

RSS and Cocoon: Just about to start and I want to check the connection as I will be doing a quick demo to show how weblogs produce RSS.

Jax pictures: Just a quick upload of two pictures taken on my 3650 from Jax. This was taken on Sunday evening an shows Masoud Kamali, the boss of Software & Support  Verlag (they are putting on the conference). Of course he's smiling because the conference hasn't started yet. And here they are, Otego! Massimo and Giacomo looking very "worldly".

Good morning from Jax: Second day of the Jax conference and I'm blooging from one of the session rooms where a session on Model Driven Architecture is about to start. Actually I'm also preparing my next session on RSS and Cocooon - so I won't be taking much in. Last night's session on Penguins are human too went well and the room was full with around 50 people. I basically talked about our 2 years of experience working with and in open source. There were some interesting discussions afterwards. Pier Fumagalli is here too and there were long and interesting discussion on servlet engines, Apache licencing until well into the night.