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August 21, 2004
Enschede - Day 1 - Morning
I just arrived at EuroFoo - it only took me around 2 hours which was a lot quicker than expected. Everyone's having breakfast so I'm currently grabbing a coffee and watching the breakfast room fill up. Things start at 10:00.
Checking the schedule reveals that I need to clone myself. Quite a few sessions that interest me so I'm going to have a hard time choosing.
My first choice is "Better living through RSS". Ben Hammersley is talking about the various aspects of aggregation. He starts off by showing the more professional "user-centric" services such as Feedburner. Now on to other things you can use RSS/Atom for. Repetitive tasks (in programming), following logging/error messages, generating and following validation errors of say your XHTML web-pages. Using a service such as Dodgeit to generate RSS feeds from email or a script to generate Atom feed from say Gmail. Ben then moves on to how you may be able to embed HTML applications into an RSS feed. This spawns a discussion on whether this would really be a good thing to do and brings up a side talk on the security of RSS/Atom feeds. DJ has a nice quote "all programs extend until they can read mail". Matt Webb jumps in with an idea of creating multiple user feeds - and shows how this could be used for things such as online chess.
Now sitting in on a discussion on how O'Reilly may organize a European conference on Open Source next year. Although none of the details are set yet, the word is that there will definitely be a EuroOSCON next year. Yippee.
"Internet of ends" by Diego (fellow Mobitopian) is up next. He is talking about the problems of the Internet today and possible solutions.
Posted by Matthew at August 21, 2004 09:03 AM