Welcome on board Nathaniel! Best Regards,
Antonio Gallardo. On Dom, 24 de Abril de 2005, 6:10, Nathaniel Alfred dijo: >> 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. >
