Retooling The WWW

The presenter of this OSDC 2006 talk was Kieren Diment works in research roles in organisations where he also acts as a sort of glue between tech and non-tech folks, didn't claim to be a hard-core coder but he had lots of experience with various tool-sets and technologies and seemed fairly comfortable talking about them.

He gave a very-brief-history-of-the-web-timeline for a bit and talked about issues that interested/excited him (content/presentation separation) then discussed frameworks he had experience with deploying to meet various web and intranet site needs he had supporting or building sites for colleagues.

Had some experience with scoop (which powers Kuro 5 hin), dabelled with Maypole and Class::DBI, didn't like the mod_perl requirements of Maypole which he said made debugging a problem (I concur to a certain extent on this), also said Class::DBI wasn't really suited when he wanted to have an application abstracted away from relational tables rather than simple flat tables (I concur on this also).

He then discussed Catalyst which he found to be a better match for his needs, not claiming to be a serious coder he wanted something that would easily accomodate more arbitrary data models, typically research publication/citation/quoting type apps that his colleagues wanted to publish. He mentioned how some models resemble the Connotea (academic social bookmarking) model.

Kieren is also working on a project Colabr 8 which is "web based software which enhances research communication"

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