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.