The main event. I'm sure details will be reported in many places, so I'll just discuss the bits I thought were best.
I'm particularly impressed with the Bricks CMS example application Bertrand has put together. Highlights are Hivemind and Derby. Paul has been talking about how he uses Hivemind in a number of prototype applications for his employer, but I've never had the time to work out what's going on. Having a Cocoon example application that does this will be invaluable. I'd also love to try out the Derby integration - we've used HSQLDB in the past, which I have an irrational dislike of, and Derby somehow feels more solid to me.
Daniel's talk on Cocoon Blocks was mostly too deep on implementation for me, but I was quite surprised by the OSGI command line: I didn't know it did that! Once again, something I keep hearing about but never got the chance to investigate. In the bar at the end of the day, Daniel showed me the OSGI GUI for inspecting components - seriously cool stuff.
Sylvain's and Max's talk on Ajax were always going to be wow factor, and they didn't disappoint. What made it for me was the "What is Ajax?" sequence of slides at the beginning. Sylvain's understated humour always makes me chuckle.
Torsten's talk on javaflow went over my head when he hit the heavily technical bits, but I loved the demo early on of the generator, and debugging javaflow in eclipse. It was also fun to see the Keynote transitions on the big screen - I admit I forgot about effects between pages for my slides. I think Torsten's presentation certainly came over as one of the slickest. I must remember to tell Massimo that Apples are great for presentations as well as being a lifestyle choice ;-) The other neat thing I learnt from Torsten is Apple-Alt-= to zoom in to the screen, and Apple-Alt-minus to zoom out again. It was particularly effective when he zoomed in to view code.
Posted by savs at October 7, 2005 10:04 AM