Comments on: ApacheCon EU talks

By: Dan Diephouse

Dan Diephouse — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 18:39:05 +0000

Rich: Ah, I see, thats a good point. I didn’t quite pick that up from the context of the comment on my proposal. Maybe a better variation would be “WS-(death?)*: Navigating web service standards” or something along those lines. Will ponder and see if I can come up with something better.

By: DrBacchus

DrBacchus — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 16:21:31 +0000

It wasn’t at all that I didn’t like the name. It’s that I didn’t get it. What I asked was, “will people know what this means?” because it means precisely nothing to me.

If folks know what it means, and come to the talk as a result, it’s a good name. If it’s cute just to be cute, and people avoid it because they don’t know what it means, it’s a bad name. I have no context for determining which is the case, even after having it explained to me what the name meant. I didn’t really want to know what it meant. I wanted to know if the target audience would know what it means. These are rather different questions.

–Rich

By: Debbie

Debbie — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 06:12:08 +0000

I like the name and I think you should wear a Darth Vader Helmet while you give your talk.

Congrats on being selected to speak twice.

By: Dave Brondsema

Dave Brondsema — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 00:09:43 +0000

I like WS death *. Just last week I heard the phrase for the first time, at the CodeMash conference in Ohio. Its funny, and it creates a little controversy which is always fun. Not that we need more WS controversy. Hmm.. maybe a WS-controversy spec is in order.

By: Mike Herrick

Mike Herrick — Sun, 28 Jan 2007 21:55:57 +0000

Ah Amsterdam. I saw Phish play there when I was cool. Both times I have been there (been years now) I eagerly anticipate my visit. For whatever reason, however, after 2 days I am overridden with a desperation to get to the train station and get the heck out of there. Looks like good talks – good time of year to get out of Graps.