Imagine writing a web application where the server part is only a few lines of Perl or PHP code, essentially grabbing data off your database without having to care about presentation or the frontend in general. The frontend part is written entirely in javascrip and runs in the browser (FF/IE/Chroma/Opera/Safari). It just calls upon the server when it want to load or store.
Until recently, writing JavaScript has been a necessary evil, and most frameworks tried to shield their users from that experience by providing means of coding in other languages and creating the necessary JavaScript on the fly.
The Qooxdoo Framework takes a radically different aproach. It enhances JavaScript with a Qt inspired Object Oriented Programming Model which does away with most of the tedious aspects of JavaScript. Coupled with a fast, themeable cross-browser widget set, it provides a powerful and pleasant development environment.
In this talk I will give a short introduction to qooxdoo and how you can use it to write your own javascript applications.
Tobias Oetiker is an electrical engineer by education and a system administrator by vocation. For ten years he has been working for the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, providing
students and staff with a deluxe Unix workstation environment. In 2006 he started his own company OETIKER+PARTNER AG, running Unix servers for industry customers, improving his pet open source projects MRTG, RRDtool, and SmokePing, and applying these tools to solve the customers' problems.
Find out more about the Tobi on http://tobi.oetiker.ch