Conferences

Gee, this was a busy week. After the hectic preparation time for the Webinale/DLW 2008, the conference week was exertive as well. We had a lot of presentations and workshops, and the ominous murmurs about preparing in previous weeklies has now exploded into a sheer flood of blog posts with slide show offerings :). Do have a look through this week's posts to catch up with all of that. For your convenience, here is a quick overview:

Presentations:

Conference posts:

The conference itself was not an unpleasant experience. I think we have got a few new qooxdoo fans ;). Sebastian has taken some photos and published them to flickr. You may want to have a look to get an impression of the conference.

RAP

Nearly unnoticed due to all this conference stuff the RAP team has released their second release candidate on Tuesday. For details please have a look at the list of fixed bugs.

qooxdoo-contrib

Ralf Nieuwenhuijsen has published his qooxdoo frontend for CouchDB [homepage, wikipedia], which looks really interesting. CouchDB is a schema-free, document-oriented database, which among other things means that it is not relational and does not employ tables with rows and columns. Rather, it stores your JSON data structures right away! Now, that should get you interested...

The contribution is aptly named CouchDB. From Ralf's introduction: "This contribution provides client-side access to a CoucbDB server using a REST api. For this purpose, part of this contribution is also a more generic neutral rest-library". If you are working against a CouchDB backend, this one might be for you. If you don't but are thinking about a backend persistency layer, maybe it's a good time to start looking into CouchDB.

This finishes off this week's summary. Have a good weekend, and I'll be better going before I go narcoleptic ... ;).