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 dinsdag 19 november 2002
Nearing the blogging end of today
Marc is now on, showcasing our work on xReporter. Being a friend and a colleague, it still gives me that fuzzy feeling of proudness when I hear him speaking. He is one hell of a speaker if he's allowed to speak geek.

We will need to create a prerelease version of xReporter soonish now rather than later. The code is there, there is incredible Dutch documentation already, so if anyone is reading this and knows about a cheap translation service, get back to us.

That was basically it for today. It has been fun all the way, preparing stuff and living through the day. It was effectively a landmark event for us, and we hope it has been similar for the Cocoon community.
5:05:45 PM    comment []  

Updated the conference website
WiFi is great at conferences. While listening to Torsten's presentation, I did some blogging, arranged a meeting with a customer, and updated the conference website.
4:01:05 PM    comment []  

Cocoon-core
Torsten now has the floor - starting of with the quote that 'developing webapps with Cocoon was a PITA' - at least when he encountered Cocoon a long time ago. He is now going through the hard job enumerating and explaining the different approaches to webapp development inside Cocoon. At least one of them is completely new to me.

I think this kind of proves what I have been saying some times during this day: the challenge for the Cocoon year to come will be to (re?)define 'Cocoon-core', and make sure people understand and love that: pipelines, a sitemap, matchers, etc... Around this core, we could have a number of (possibly competing) solutions for particular problems, like authentication, webapp development, forms... And then Software Darwinism kicks in and the most healthy solution lives happily ever after. We (the Cocoon-community) should make clear to our end-users what is inside the core and whatnot.

Coming up next, there will be a break. After that, Marc will present xReporter and we'll close the day with a reception. Then, I'll have a nervous breakdown for the evening to come :-)
3:33:23 PM    comment []  

Can't make any sense?
If you are reading this log and Matthew's, and feeling like you should have been here, maybe this can help. The PDF renditions of the presentations - sources will be posted later on some comprehensive post-event website. Stay tuned.
3:07:26 PM    comment []  

Our favourite HP employee
Ovidiu is now enlightening us about Cocoon control flow, his recent effort to make sure Cocoon is not only the best platform for XML/XSLT-based web publishing, but also a robust foundation for building 'real' webapps.

I think a lot of people have great expectations about what he is going to tell us. So far, he's living up to it.

Update: Ovidiu is - ahum - King. Lots of hard questions, and Sylvain jumping into the discussion. Electricity.
2:29:25 PM    comment []  

Morning break finished
Now, Carsten is explaining us about the Cocoon portal and authentication framework - the last presentation before lunch (yes - we Belgians are very food-driven). During the break, Marc managed to gather quite some people for an xReporter demo - he was looking sad when I announced break would be over in 5 minutes. I'm basically too busy to really talk with people, but it seems like everyone is enjoying this first opportunity to meet and greet. Lots of techie talk also between Torsten and Ovidiu, so it seems. Maybe we'll find the results of these real-life conversations back in CVS some day.

Since a number of people didn't show up (that's what you have when doing a free event) - there will be plenty of sandwiches for anyone during lunch :-)
12:19:35 PM    comment []  

GetTogether lift-off
Sylvain Wallez is currently explaining to us some unusual devices to run Cocoon on. Yesterday evening, we went to a sparerib restaurant with some 20-ish GetTogether attendees, and much fun was had by all. I was sitting at a table together with the Aussie-Germans Marcus and Michael and our Italian attendee Luca Morandini. Afterwards, I've been introducing them and Ovidiu to the wonderful world of Belgian beers. Suffice to say it was quite late and we all feel a bit shaky this morning. Luckily Matthew gave us an inspiring intro to start the day, so now we're all gradually reviving and enjoying the presentations.

And Matthew just managed to get his WiFi card reset, so I expect him to be blogging too ;-)

Plenty of people are carrying geeky stuff like digital cameras, so expect a lot of pictures being posted on the Web in the next few days.
11:10:54 AM    comment []