Last week we attended the Java Forum in Stuttgart/Germany, which is organized by the local Java User Group Stuttgart (JUGS). Even for us rather JavaScript-oriented guys this was really a good conference. With more than 1000 attendees it was larger than expected. Just the conference track itself with 42 presentations was worth the car ride on the painfully congested A8 highway to Stuttgart. Initially we just expected to attend some of the presentations, but as 1&1 also had a booth at the exhibition floor, we were asked to support our colleagues during session breaks. At least we had made sure they brought some of the qooxdoo give-aways (flyer, ball pens, highlighters and, of course, the little candy boxes).

Once we were putting the give-aways onto the table people started asking what this qooxdoo thingy is all about. Some of them had already heard of the project and many of the Java crowd associated it right away with Eclipse RAP . Luckily Andreas brought his laptop with him, so we were able to do live demonstrations. The feedback was very positive. Most of the visitors were professional software developers and almost everyone had to deal with some kind of web application anyway. Many feel the pressure from their customers, who no longer want to deal with those old-fashioned,  form-based web applications. There certainly is a huge demand for rich internet applications (RIA), even among rather conservative, business-oriented customers.

One talk we simply could not miss was the talk by Stefan Röck and Frank Appel about their project experience with Eclipse RAP. Frank Appel is the technical lead of the RAP team at Innoopract and Stefan is a software developer at CAS Software AG, who works on a brand new RAP-based CRM application. They gave a live demo of teamCRM and explained how they were able to build it using Eclipse RAP. teamCRM is probably the most advanced RAP application to date and people were really impressed.

We enjoyed the conference. Thanks to the organizers and all the people that we had really interesting discussions with. Wanna join 1&1? Anyway, we'll definitely come back next year.

So, this was it. We're back from the conference, still a bit numb with this anti-climactic feeling you get after those events. Yesterday was the final conference day, and most of us stayed until the very end joining in into the final sessions. I enjoyed a very lively talk by Steve Bristol of lesseverything who shed some light onto how Rails deploys JavaScript. Andreas and Fabian delivered their presentations to an interested audience. Again, there was a lot of interest in fundamental issues of JavaScript software engineering as people seem to get ready to embark on more ambitious projects, beyond spicing up a Web page with a few inline JavaScript statements. Some showed real awe when faced with the fact that you can do JavaScript projects with a couple of hundreds of classes :-).

Now we're settling back in for normal project work, while still tying up some loose ends, looking through notes and getting presentation material ready for further use.

Yesterday none of us gave a presentation, so we were mostly off roaming the offerings of the conference program. It was the first day of the main conference, and we saw much more traffic, especially at the booth. People were friendly and interested, but mainly focusing on qooxdoo as a technology, and much less on qooxdoo as a project the might consider joining. I attended a keynote presentation given by Neal Ford of ThoughtWorks on "Essence vs Ceremony". He very intriguingly pointed out that we are fighting too much "accidential" complexity in our projects, and that we should lean towards languages that allow us to focus on essentials, rather than burdening us with ceremony. A measure for that was the distance between intention and result. Well said! As far as implementation languages go, Ruby, Groovy and PHP are strongly represented at the conference.

Today, Andreas, Fabian and myself are scheduled for their presentations. Mine about Web testing was well received this morning, while Fabian is talking about JavaScript tooling later in the afternoon, and Andreas is giving actually two presentations, one about object-oriented JavaScript (in the Dynamic Languages World) and one about qooxdoo (in the "RIA Day" track of the webinale). We'll be back with more!

Yesterday saw the first day of the joint Webinale/Dynamic Languages World conferences. Actually, it was one of those prequel workshop days (the actual conferences starting today), featuring two qooxdoo sessions in the "Power Workshops" track, both mainly based on the upcoming 0.8 release. Sebastian and Fabian presented the framework in the morning session, walking the audience through incremental stages of developing one of our showcases, the feedreader. In the afternoon, Sebastian again presented the new build system, with jobs, parts, variants etc. in all their glory. Alex, Johnny and Martin followed up highlighting the new low level layer, animations and the Inspector, respectively.

The sessions were well received, with about 15 people attending in the morning and about 25 in the afternoon. There seemed to be quite a mix of people both with strong backgrounds in web application and Javascript development, and those that are just starting to move into this area or are looking for a platform to build their work upon.

We'll be uploading presentations and more after the conference.

If you ever wanted to meet a whole bunch of qooxdoo core developers at once, there's a good chance to do so on May 26-28, 2008: Two conferences will be held in the city of Karlsruhe (Germany), where most of the qooxdoo framework developers work at 1&1. Excitingly, many team members will participate in the event as speakers, covering quite a wide range of topics, including brand new qooxdoo 0.8 features as well as modern web technologies in general.

Both conferences take place at the same time and location. The first one is the webinale, a well-known German web conference. Most of the talks will be given in German, and so will the following (titles translated to English):

Two power workshops (3 hours each) will focus on features and tools of the upcoming qooxdoo 0.8:

• GUI Development with qooxdoo (Sebastian Werner, Fabian Jakobs) - in German
• Advanced Web Application Development (Sebastian Werner + other core developers) - in German

A session within the "RIA day" track will show how qooxdoo stands up to other technologies:

• qooxdoo - Killer apps for all browsers (Andreas Ecker) - in German

Dynamic Languages World Europe is the first European conference dealing with the shared concepts and frameworks of all important dynamic languages. Of course, we made sure that JavaScript is in the mix. This is an international conference with all the sessions given in English:

• Advanced Object-Oriented JavaScript (Andreas Ecker) - in English
• Selenium RC: Automated Testing of Modern Web Applications (Thomas Herchenröder) - in English
• JavaScript Tooling - Minimize, Lint & Co (Fabian Jakobs) - in English

A great opportunity (at least for the German qooxdoo community) to meet us at these conferences, getting a fair amount of qooxdoo overdose and hanging out with us for a beer or two. If you are interested, let us know. 

The upcoming AJAXWorld Conference & Expo is one of this year's premier events focusing on "rich web technologies and enterprise web 2.0". qooxdoo - being one of the few comprehensive frameworks that spearheaded the development of Ajax-based Rich Internet Applications - will be present at the event to showcase its features and vision.

If you ever wanted to know more about qooxdoo and meet some of the people behind this open-source framework, join us at the conference on March 18-20, 2008 in New York City. There will be a session on Next-generation AJAX Applications with qooxdoo, and we'll be available for discussion at the exhibition. Some of the framework core developers will be there (Fabian, Sebastian, Derell, myself, other qooxdoo users), so stop by at our booth, meet us the day before or after the conference or hang out with us at night.

We have just been offered some free expo passes that allow access to the Expo floor, vendor presentations, keynotes and power panels for the entire event. They are not full conference passes, so you won't be able to attend all sessions. Anyway, it's a great opportunity to attend AJAXWorld and meet us. If you are interested, just let me know (ecker AT users DOT sourceforge DOT net). Looking forward to seeing you at AJAXWorld!

UPDATE: Just added - The FREE passes are "Expo Plus passes" that allow access to TWO FREE technical sessions per day, March 19th and 20th! Just drop me a note if you're interested.

I like to share the presentation files for all the people who had no chance to come visiting us at the AJAX IN ACTION (a web related conference in Germany). The AJAX IN ACTION was a great success. We had have never so many people in one of our presentations than this time. With every year of qooxdoo's existance, it seems that more and more people are able to understand us and our intention. Where the Web 2.0 started with simple sites and effects, it now seems that real web applications, like the ones built with qooxdoo, are going to be realistic to a lot more people. I am really happy about this trend.

The presentation itself is in German. Hopefully it is interesting and maybe even helpful to some of you. If you want to share your impressions of the AJAX IN ACTION please feel free to leave a comment.

Download: qooxdoo-workshop.pdf

We are excited to be part of the AJAX IN ACTION conference in Frankfurt, Germany. The conference will take place on November 5-7, 2007. Andreas Ecker will talk about the Future of AJAX applications and there will be a workshop with Sebastian Werner who will explain How to use qooxdoo for web application development. qooxdoo's main supporter 1&1 enables us to be present at the conference as an exhibitor. We are looking forward to meeting a lot of existing users and interested developers at our booth.

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It has been a great success to be part of the previous The Ajax Experience West in San Francisco end of July. This conference is one of the most authoritative events for developers looking to learn about Ajax and next generation web applications. We met a lot of interesting people and had a great time to explain to them the power and vision of qooxdoo, being one of the most exciting open source JavaScript frameworks. We also enjoyed the technical discussion with our fellow developers of other Ajax frameworks and had the pleasure to get to know some enthusiastic qooxdoo users and co-developers.

We are excited to (again) present qooxdoo at the upcoming The Ajax Experience East. This time the conference will take place in Boston on October 24-26, 2007. There will be a talk about qooxdoo and as a sponsor of TAE we will be available for personal discussion at our exhibition booth as well. The framework will be represented at least by Derrell, Fabian and myself.

IMPORTANT NOTE:

If you would like to attend TAE (perhaps if you also happen to live in the Boston area), we have just been offered two guest passes that will be given away for free. Sorry for the short notice. Anyone interested in attending the conference, please hurry up an let me know immediately!

We are pretty excited to present qooxdoo as one of the key frameworks at the upcoming The Ajax Experience. This conference, July 25-27, 2007 in San Francisco, is one of the most authoritative events for developers looking to learn about Ajax and next generation web applications. Therefore, it is a perfect opportunity to demonstrate the power and vision of qooxdoo.

The qooxdoo development team will be represented by Sebastian Werner, Derrell Lipman and myself. There will be a talk about qooxdoo and as a sponsor of TAE we will be available for personal discussion at our exhibition booth as well. I am sure that qooxdoo will surprise and convince many attendees, particularly those who didn't know much about qooxdoo before.

It would be great to meet many qooxdoo users at this event and have some interesting discussion. If you happen to live in the Bay area but you won't attend TAE, just drop me a note and let us figure out a chance to meet - and probably have a beer or two

IMPORTANT UPDATE:

We were just offered a limited number of guest passes that we may give away for free. Anyone interested in attending the conference, please hurry up an let me know immediately ! Good luck.