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!