Hello,Thank you Reinhard, and thanks all of you for your confidence in me and for all your kind comments during the vote. I feel deeply honored to become a committer in such a great project.
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Full name: Daniel Fagerstrom Preferred userid: danielf
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My interest in Cocoon started a litle more than three years ago. I was asked to evaluate if Cocoon could be a good replacement for a home brown XSP-like template language, (which funny enough also was called XSP), at the company where I work: Lentus AB in Stockholm, Sweden.
We (around 20 persons) work with consulting in the field of market analysis and strategy development, a large part of our business is to develop and run information systems that gather data and analyses what happens between a company and its customers. The central parts in our systems are large data warehouses stored in MySQL, and web interfaces for working with the data and the various workflows that are dependent on the data. MySQL where developed in close cooperation with Lentus, but that was before I started to work there.
I did some prototyping in Cocoon and started to lurk at the dev-list and a after a couple of mounths we started to develop our first Cocoon-based product (Cocoon 2.0 early alpha, thoose where the days ;) ). Now we use Cocoon for all our applications and we are around 10 persons who use Cocoon for building applications.
Making Cocoon an even better frame work for webapps will (continue to) be my main interest for Cocoon. Things I'd like to do are:
* Increase the support for building web services (WS) based on Cocoon. ATM, WS is to a large part percieved as a way to do RPC from one application (written in e.g. Java, Perl or C#) to another. I believe that document based WS will be a big thing in the near future, and here Cocoon fits perfectly. We will see more and more of pipeline and flowscript based WS developed "without writing any code" ;)
* IMHO the impedance mismatch between Woody and XML (and XML Schema datatypes) is somewhat to big, I'd like to do something about that.
* Making it easier to reuse and extend "default" webapps. I'm very interested in the parts of the "real blocks", that makes that possible.
* We have a quite sophisticated system for creating and visualizing relational databases based on XML meta data. Hopefully some of theese stuff can be packaged and refined so that it can be usable for others as well.
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Some background: My first programs, I wrote on a swedish Z80 based microcomputer named ABC800. I have studied computer science, mathematcs and psychology and tought various computer science courses at the university for a couple of years. Have also given various courses in Unix, C++ and OO in the industry. I worked on a flight simulator and did some human factors research at Ericsons flight industrial part. And then I have spent far more time than I would like to admit on writing a PhD thesis in Computer Vision, hopefully I will find enough time to finish it during the next year.
In my copious spare time, I try to forget what a geek I am by: sailing, snow boarding, kite surfing, rock climbing and training Thai boxing. When I was younger I was interested in stuff like reading and music as well ;)
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Again thanks for voting me in and have a wonderfull X-mas. I'll be offline for the next week doing kite surfing in Egypt. After that I will start to flood the CVS ;)
/Daniel
