> I counted eighteen +1s and no other votes, welcome Alfred! > -Bertrand
With my account in the works, it's time to introduce myself. I am team leader of Internet Service Development at SWX Swiss Exchange. Our business unit SWX e-Services (current staff 18, half of them developers) is in charge of the corporate websites of SWX and a number of related companies. Our expertise lies in the processing of stock quotes and other financial data. In the old days we have been using mainly Perl CGIs and scripts for the generation of dynamic content. Beginning of 2002 I started looking at Cocoon. After a successful pilot to integrate a new Cocoon-based application into the existing website, Java and Cocoon became our technology of choice for all new developments. In the meantime more than 80% of our content volume, including the two biggest sites www.swx.com and www.eurexchange.com, are Cocoon-based, and the rest is scheduled to follow. For us XSP is still a key technology and I am hesitating to go the flowscript way for various reasons. With my SWX hat on the committership is therefore an important instrument to make sure that the XSP block stays production quality, even if declared legacy by the Cocoon avantgarde. Another professional itch is to optimize multi-threaded performance on 4-8 CPU servers. Among the more personal interests I hope to combine with Cocoon during my copious sparetime are Relax NG (to fight the evil XML Schema moloch), findbugs (to fight bugs which should not be), and automatic unit tests (to fight those annoying regressions). As non-committer I was always wondering at the long list of [PATCH] entries in Bugzilla. Now I better have a closer look whether I can't do something about that myself. Anyway, thanks to all you guys for creating Cocoon which makes my daytime job so much more interesting. I hope I am up to contributing to it a bit myself now. Cheers, Alfred. This message is for the named person's use only. It may contain confidential, proprietary or legally privileged information. No confidentiality or privilege is waived or lost by any mistransmission. If you receive this message in error, please notify the sender urgently and then immediately delete the message and any copies of it from your system. Please also immediately destroy any hardcopies of the message. You must not, directly or indirectly, use, disclose, distribute, print, or copy any part of this message if you are not the intended recipient. The sender's company reserves the right to monitor all e-mail communications through their networks. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the message states otherwise and the sender is authorised to state them to be the views of the sender's company.
