The WebLion Garage
Presenters: Erik Rose, Eric Steele, Rob Porter
Description: The WebLion project has come a long way in the past
year, and we're going to gloat about it for an hour. Admire the view
from 10,000 feet as we showcase this year's developments, including
federated searching of Plone sites (using wacky asynchronous SOAP
calls), ready-to-go AD54-compliant templates, integration with Penn
State auth, and on-demand page distillation for mobile devices. You'll
also get a whirlwind tour of some of our more outlandish development
practices, including code generation from UML, pair programming, and
extensive abuse of wikis and ticket systems. Then we'll spin some tall
tales about next year's plans for world domination. Never heard of
WebLion? Try http://weblion.psu.edu/
Prerequisite Skills: It's a salad, so different people will appreciate
different parts. HTML and CSS-type people will dig the templates and mobile device stuff. Sysadmins might like
the auth integration. Developers will get the most out of our development practice stylings.
But even if you're none of these, you're welcome to take in the 10,000-foot parts and ask
questions.
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