Nice one from Matthew.

Quite busy days (as to be seen here) over at Apache Cocoon

and very much proud of earning committership while this is happening...

(there is more work to do there, have to run!)

Apache Cocoon, the Web Application framework formerly known as the XML Publication Framework :-)

Shape up for the Webapps of the post-XML-era...

Sure looks like a fun mini-cocoon-gettogether over there! The pictures made me realize I haven't actually 'seen' Sylvain and Bertrand since some time...

(before they start guessing what that implies: "you are both still looking good" :-) "even in shorts!")

I guess nobody ever is considering taking holidays in Belgium (however we have +30degrees here at the moment) -- but if you do, you 're very much Welcome.

into shameless marketing: It is no coincidence my blog's geoURL is coliding with this Apache Cocoon generated site. :-) Maybe we should organize some Apache Cocoon hacking camps :-)

And yes, that means I do live at the sea. JUMMY! (and I don't (need) have a pool :-))Actually (just to get you jealous) there are no buildings between my home-office-window and the beach, so my 180-degree open view is only blocked by the beauty of the sand-dunes in front.

Briliant remark from Jeff in this forrest-dev thread.

It's interesting how the technical limitations of CVS access control have

shaped the sociology of open source..

Bruno and I have this ongoing discussion about humans controlling machines controlling humans controlling... ever since we had an evening out to the Matrix with the (whole!) company...

I often make the remark that to a lot of people the machine is partly dictating what can and cannot be done (ever were in some administration where some clerk just says: I cannot grant your request because I cannot enter it into 'the system')

Bruno would typically make the argument that the rule doesn't apply to him cause he can just go in and 'change the system'... Well, it turns out that even Neo has limited time, resources and/or interest and therefore will decide at some time that adapting the human to the system is just easier in achieving the bigger goal...

Hm, being able to make that decision, and control the self-adaptation is probably what will keep on differentiating humans from machines... :-)

Muchos Kudos to Sylvain who over some exchanged e-mail invited me to explain more about some of my previous rumblings on the cocoon flow... turned out to be quite some shared neurons experience...

After the mail exchanges I 've been rehashing the thoughts and writing them carefully down in a quite lengthy RT on the wiki. Hoping to make sense. If you can't spare the time over the lengthy read: you might get enough out of the great synopsis Sylvain posted.

Back to work, now. Doing some actual hacking on my woody-binding idea... hoping to be able to send in some code for peer review soon.