bergie

Listening to some Drupal talks. Their APIs are really inelegant, but that helps their popularity as it is easier to make your own hacks into a mess than to structure your ideas properly. Something to think about...

@piotras this stuff might be interesting for the future of midgard2-python

Well...Sometimes its better just to get the things done than to think all (even simple things) from academic point of view :) IMO, there is usage and good arguments for both approaches.

The thing Drupal has definitely right is their content type editor. We really need to expose MgdSchema installation via API!

Why to use Midgard2 in desktop applications: instead of coming up with your own file formats you just work with objects and signals

Listening to the DesktopCouch tutorial. Again, they do some things better, and we other things. Would be fun to make a 'Midgardized' version of the same tutorial to better show off the differences

in a "Scaling Facebook" talk. They should know a thing or two about building high-capacity dynamic web services.

Cool demo of live friend requests flying across continents so they couldn't even split the databases on per-country criteria

@bergie what is this FOSDEM?

ok, google found it. What track are you following?

The amount of things Facebook has released as open source is pretty amazing: HipHop (PHP C++ compiler), memcached improvements, Hive query interface to Hadoop map/reduce, Thrift RPC system...

@jal FOSDEM is more about meeting people than the talks, but I occasionally pop into interesting sessions

@bergie How much people are there now in Brussels FOSDEM? Finns?

Found interesting absracts like maybe this:
http://fosdem.org/2010/schedule/event...

and some others, too...
http://fosdem.org/2010/schedule/days

@jal FOSDEM is huge, about 5000 free software developers attending

This is an interesting place for observing computing trends. About half of the attendees have a Netbook, typically with Ubuntu. The rest are either with a MacBook Pro or some Maemo/Android/WebOS/iPhone smartphone. I wonder how many will be carrying iPads or more open tablets next year

#iks-project related talk: the semantic web is robot food

REST APIs have made it a lot cheaper for sites to talk with each other. Semantic web will make it even cheaper. And the cheaper it is, the more it will happen. This will allow greater specialization of functionality. A website will no longer be an isolated island.

RDF is the cornerstone of the semantic web. With it (RDFa) you can make a regular HTML page semantic so that it is readable by both humans and computers. This makes it unnecessary to maintain separate web APIs to enable integration with your web service.

@bergie Looks promising. GObject introspection itself is too good to write bindings manually :)

@bergie wrt Midgard and desktop, Midgard plugin for conboy might be good example.