DeeKnow’s Grotto

OSCON2002 : Building XML portals w Cocoon - This session was presented by Mathew Langham who is the co-author of the O'Reilly book on Cocoon. He talked about Intranet uses for Cocoon and potential uses for things other than web presentaton, processing of XML data from and to repositories instead of just for publication. And using it for command-line publshing of a static collection. Full Summary Here

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OSCON2002 : PHP, W3C and mod_perl2 - these were three seperate sessions, all were all pretty short and of relatively limited value unfotunately. The PHP one was pitched at newbies, the W3C one was nothing new really, and the mod_perl one was way above my head. Full Summary Here.

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OSCON2002 : Content Management with Perl - The presenter for this session stated he wasnt going to go through a tick-list of CMS features, or do a comparison of all perl based CMSs (as there are many of them) so he basically was gonna review three products that were different enough to represent the typical CMS offerings out there. He also avoided any UI / design issues, and pretty much stuck to base features, and likely target applications/audiences of each of the products. The three tools compared were Slash, Bricolage and XIMS. Full Summary Here

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OSCON2002 : Publishing with WebDAV - This session was presented by Greg Stein, author of the apache DAV module. His talk was split between talking about DAV in general, how it integrates with Apache, and some low-level stuff about the actual implementation (which I kinda ignored coz it was aimed at DAV protocol/client developers). Full Summary Here.

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OSCON2002 : From Oracle to ZODB: A Case Study - This session was presented by two guys from a brazilian company who develop web applications publishing database-backed content exclusively in Zope. Their talk covered how they migrated from an Oracle back-end to ZODB involving a server platform change along the way.

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OSCON2002 : Python and Zope Roadmap sessions - went to two sessions on the Thursday at the convention. The 1st was presented by Python father Guido van Rossum about the current state of Python, and the 2nd was presented by Jim Fulton from Zope Corp. Full Summary Here

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OSCON2002 : Exchanging Messages with SOAP - The speaker was Ian Kallen who used to be technology leader at Salon. He was a very good speaker, spoke freely and openly about issues, problems etc he saw with SOAP and webservices in general. He introduced XMl-RPC and talked about Dave Winer's contribution. Summary Here.

2:37:21 PM  

A Negative view of Zope 3 - after one of the BOF's (on blogging) at OSCON2002 I spoke for awhile with John VanDyk about his views on Zope vs Frontier. John's an experienced Frontier developer and has spent some time playing with Zope. However he wasn't overly confident about his future use of either product. Here's what he blogged on the Zope 3 session.

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Content Management Contact - whilst at OSCON2002 I spotted a note on the noticeboard from a guy from the University of Tennassee who was interested in getting together with folks to talk about CMS in a Uni environment. Never did manage to catch up with him, but saved his email for later reference.

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