I drafted some blog entry about last week’s WebMontag (de) session in Frankfurt am Main but somehow I managed forgetting posting it.
It was my first experience with the WebMontag events, so I didn’t really know what to expect. However, I’m happy I attended and talked there!
The venue, Brotfabrik, is already worth mentioning. Picking up Pierre Kerchner (de) by car, we bumped into Dirk Friedenberger (de) arriving: always good to know people first time going somewhere.
The planned presentations were:
- Andreas Demmer gave a talk about how web designers can run browsers not written for the OS one develops on. He mentioned among other things VMWare, VirtualBox and Wine.
- Matthias Kehm (de) spoke about how to get the search engines read your Flash enabled websites. Trick is to get the content into a javascript thing, so when the browser is looking at it, it will show the flash. The robot will get just HTML. I’m not a Flash lover, but that was pretty neat. Nothing knew, but you have to know!
- Dirk Friedenberger presented a Ajax bomberman game (de) with Tomcat backend. I must say I was quite impressed what he made there. Nice showcase!
I went also on stage, and for the first time doing it in German! And I must say I really really enjoyed it. The audience was also cool, so that helped to overcome my little stress with the language in the beginning. The talk went a bit about the history of MySQL as a company. Still lots of people have no clue there is a company behind it. I continued with the acquisition by Sun Microsystems, mimicking Kaj Arno’s talk in Munich (Germany).
The talk ended with an overview what’s coming with MySQL 5.1 and 6.0, since I really didn’t prepare for it. However, I had a blast! Feedback was great too!