Jonathan Weiß

On Tuesday we released the first version of qooxdoo 0.8 as a alpha1. We are proud to present this major version (containing so many improvements, new features and additions) to the public for the first time. Be sure to see the new default theme and the qooxdoo animation demos.

Demo of the new default theme

All details can be found, as usual, in the release notes.
Have fun. :-)

This month you three chances to meet us in Karlsruhe: Thursday, the 8th at the NerdNight, 26th to 28th at the webinale and at the Dynamic Languages World Europe.

• NerdNight is a recruiting event which should help us finding new coworkers at 1&1. Andreas will talk about qooxdoo, of course. ;-)
• During the webinale we have two power workshops:
  1. GUI Development with qooxdoo (Sebastian Werner, Fabian Jakobs)
  2. Advanced Web Application Development (Sebastian Werner and other core developers including myself! ;-))
  3. and one session within the RIA day:
     qooxdoo - Killer apps for all browsers (Andreas Ecker)
• At the Dynamic Languages World Europe we have three sessions:
  1. Advanced Object-Oriented JavaScript (Andreas Ecker)
  2. Selenium RC: Automated Testing of Modern Web Applications (Thomas Herchenröder)
  3. JavaScript Tooling - Minimize, Lint & Co (Fabian Jakobs)

Be sure to read Andreas' post for more information.

Exactly one year ago I published my first post in this blog. Until now I have been assiduously writing 43 posts in 16 categories, which results in an average amount of 3.6 posts per month. ;-)
I am a bit proud that I managed blogging (more or less) frequently, because this is my third try to do blogging and I always stopped after very few posts.

My reasons for blogging are:

1. somehow every developer has a blog
2. I wanted to have some kind of personal knowledge base
3. I like writing as a way of focus my thoughts on something and express my opinion
4. I wanted to practice my English
5. I always somehow liked the idea to actually write thoughts or feelings down and then look at this texts a few years later...

I make much use of the possibility to schedule posts and write entries when I have time and (sometimes) tweak them a little bit before they get published. For example every Optimizion Monday entry is published on the first Monday in each month.
I also like just writing down thoughts that are on my mind and observe in which way the entry is going while writing...