Webinale/DLW 2008 are over
Filed under: Activities, Conferences
By Thomas Herchenröder @ May 29, 2008 5:12 pm
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.

Comment by SQville
Hi Thomas
Were there any talks on javascript as a language (i.e. javascript on the server, unified model of development, etc.)?
May 30, 2008 4:03 pm
Comment by Thomas Herchenröder
Hi SQville,
I’m not aware of any talk on the conference that was entirely devoted to Javascript as a language, but one of Andreas’ talks devotes a fair amount (first 35+ slides) to a nice introduction to Javascript.
I haven’t seen anything about JS on the server, but you should find information about that on the Internet (get back if you have difficulties). As for the development model, you probably already know about qooxdoo’s. Other than that I’m not aware of any presentation I could point you to. Does this answer your question?
May 30, 2008 5:04 pm
Comment by SQville
It does… there’s Aptana’s Jaxer and Rhino, and I was just wondering if any one at the conference was talking about them (or the concept for that matter). I see you guys posted your presentations. I’ll comb through them before asking any more silly questions
Thanks
May 31, 2008 10:32 pm
Comment by Thomas Herchenröder
> It does… there’s Aptana’s Jaxer and Rhino, and I was just wondering if any one at the
> conference was talking about them (or the concept for that matter). I see you guys
No, as I said, nothing I’m aware of. On the server side the conference program was pretty much dominated by RoR, Php and Groovy.
> posted your presentations. I’ll comb through them before asking any more silly
> questions
No bother. But our stuff also doesn’t cover any server-side JS, if I’m not mistaken.
June 2, 2008 9:42 am