The Apachecon EU 2007 call for proposals closes today, and I've just submitted mine. Plenty of time for more last-minute proposals! Bertrand and Steve have both disclosed their topics, so I'll do the same: Web 2.0 and Cocoon 2.2.
The rationale: I think there's a wild assumption out there that to do fully buzzword-compliant webapps you need one of the new frameworks like Rails or Wicket. Not so!
Cocoon has been helping to expose dark data, leverage semantic web, talk to web services and provide RESTful APIs for years, before we even got useful monikers for these things (I should know, I've been banging on about this stuff, and ranting about suitable architectures at conferences for ages). And thanks to the excellent work of Jeremy and others, Cocoon does all the cool Ajax stuff you'd expect, too.
I had promised myself I'd submit a talk aimed at the business track this year too, but I suspect this will be one of my last opportunities to do a really technical talk, and I wanted an excuse to play with all the buzzword-compliant stuff ;-)
Posted by savs at January 12, 2007 11:13 AM