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Cocoon GetTogether 2005 Finished!

Well, after one big week, we all arrived back in Frankfurt from Amsterdam last night.

After another awesome GetTogether, I think I need another week to recover! ;)

What stood out the most, as does every year, is how close the Cocoon community is with each other, and how the people are more important than the technology.

I was also amazed at how far Cocoon has progressed over the years with the invention/innovation of new ways at solving problems that plauge us in the web development world.

I remember back in 2000 when we were developing our first Cocoon application and faced the most common implementation problems - web application flow, form/dialog validation, dynamic guis.

Back then (ie. Cocoon 2.0 alpha) the solutions were actions, javascript (either home grown or with one of many forms libraries) and javascript.

Now, it's flowscript (javascript or javabased), CForms, and AJAX.

Interestingly the underlying concepts of Cocoon have remained the same, ie. a pipeline model of processing data in separate parts to provide a solid separation of concerns between processing, presentation and so forth.

With such a bright and talented team, we can only imagine where the future will take us :)
Posted by crafterm at October 10, 2005 03:00 PM | TrackBack