BarCamp Cape Town

I am currently at BarCamp Cape Town – day two. It is rather small but there are some smart guys here and the discussion is very stimulating.

Currently Adrian Rossouw from Bryght did a useful presentation on Drupal. Everyone who has the required knowledge seems to agree with our hypothesis that Drupal is the best platform of CMS deployments.

Raoul Snyman did a great presentation on an overview of the technical considerations for SEO and SEM.

Rafiq Phillips provided some inspirational motivation on innovation and facilitated a discussion around what makes blogs more successful than other sites in getting high search engine rankings. A takeway – standards on the web are of vital importance on the web!TYFYC Rafiq…

An Axoim Framework (Python) overview was presented by Moe Aboulkheir

Jeremy Thurgood spoke about Nevow, a Python based framework/”web application construction tool kit.” Looks powerful and I would like to get some thoughts about Nevow vs. other frameworks in the debate – so please contribute if you have any thoughts…

Duncan Withers introduced OpenProject.

I hosted a discussion on programming approaches and focussed on Agile. I was impressed by the interest and knowledge of the other BarCampers.
Laurence Baldwin spoke about antispam software – spam assassin.

I will edit this post as things develop…

Category: Ajax, Developers Interest, Office Stuff, Web 2.0