A few weeks ago I went to XTech 2008 in Dublin. I spoke on versioning using XML Schema 1.0 and upcoming Schema 1.1 features. (Powerpoint slides)Last year was the first time we ever went to Dublin, and then I was back within a year. Interestingly, I had spoken at XTech 2000 about java/xml architectures and a java/xml/sql binding framework (slides) that's more flexible and faster than XML Beans and higher performant than many xml/java to sql stores.
I thought the conference was really great. I learned a lot in just about every talk. My favourite was Simon Willison's unobtrusive javascript with jQuery. He did all the talk live using firebug and jQuery.
I also had a really wonderful time chatting with speakers and attendees. The speaker pool was amazing and I had some quality social time with many of them: Simon, David Recordon, Matt Bidulph, Kellan, rabble, Ralph Meijer, Seth. I also had a chance to spend some time with AnneVK and Henri S talking about HTML5 and distributed extensibility.
I would love to attend the conference again next year, and it's very worthy of attending.
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