Peter Thoeny

Speaking Sessions

• How to create web apps in the cloud using TWiki

  11:15 AM Saturday   Room: 4203

  Need to quickly build a web app, such as a knowledge base, inventory system, status reporting, or shared contact list? Use HTML, CSS, JavaScript and TML to create a web app and run it in a wiki! The founder of TWiki, which is a leading open source Enterprise Wiki and Web 2.0 Application Platform deployed in 50,000 organizations, explains how to deploy TWiki in the cloud and how to build TWiki applications.

• How to Run a Long Background Process in a Web App

  9:45 AM Saturday   Room: 4203

  Web applications need to respond quickly to user actions. From a usability point of view, anything that takes longer than a second or two will distract the user from the task at hand. This is a hands-on Perl and JavaScript coding session that explains how to span a background daemon process from a Perl web application and how to check on progress using Ajax calls. The example is done with code of a TWiki backup & restore plugin, however it is generic enough to be used in any web application programming environment.