We're back from the AJAX in Action, one of the premier Ajax conferences in Germany. It was the first time I did a qooxdoo talk at a public conference. In May I already had a presentation about JavaScript tooling at the Dynamic Language World, but this time I "officially" presented qooxdoo. My talk was in one of the smaller conference rooms in the basement of the conference center. Since I felt well-prepared I decided to attend the presentation held in the same room right before my talk. The talk was about Silverlight and there were exactly 5 people in the audience. This scared me a bit since I didn't want to talk to an almost empty room. Luckily this didn't happen. The room was filled with about 20-30 people. I was especially happy to find Paul Bakaus the project lead of jQuery UI and dojo commiter Nikolai Onken in the audience. The talk was well received and I think I was able to communicate the philosophy of qooxdoo and its current state. I have uploaded the slides to slideshare.

Ajax In Action 2008 - Gui Development With qooxdoo
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Since the slides don't work well without my oral presentation you can also download a version containing my presentation notes.

I really enjoyed the conference. Even more than the talks it was the opportunity to meet a lot of interesting people. It was awesome to meet so many German contributors and committers of other JavaScript frameworks. On Thursday evening there was a nice Oktoberfest organized with Leberkäse (meatloaf), Brathendl (grilled chicken) and Maßbierkrüge (1l glasses of beer). We sat together with the dojo guys from uxebu (Wolfram Kriesing, Nikolai Onken and Tobias von Klipstein), Jan Kassens (Mootools), Paul Bakaus (jQuery UI) and Jörg Kress. We had a lot of tech talk, some beer and really a nice evening. Check out the video of our "framework round table" in Tobias' blog post.

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