Orlando is the place to be in three weeks! On October the 5th, the Java in Action conference will take place there. TechTarget invited me as a speaker several months ago thanks to my work on the RIFE web application framework and Bla-bla List, an open-source to-do tracking written in OpenLaszlo on top of a RESTful architecture.

My presentation that has been accepted is "The Server-side Architecture Behind OpenLaszlo Applications".

I had a great time creating the presentation slides last week and am eager to talk about this topic at the conference. I'm starting with the explanation of a common approach for maintainable Rich Internet Application architectures and gradually narrow it down to OpenLaszlo, explaining its strengths and weaknesses. At the end I focus on some pitfalls and good practices to make you more productive in the creation of your OpenLaszlo applications.

I'm particularly excited to finally meet some of my internet buddies in real life. I'm also very happy that my friend and associate JR Boyens will be writing some summaries for TheServerSide about JIA. We will thus finally meet after all these years of working together.

It's going to be three exciting days! See you there!