Barnaby James

February 11, 2006

O'Reilly ETech 2006

I'll be attending the O'Reilly Emerging Technologies 2006 conference in San Diego, March 6-9. I've been wanting to attend this conference for a while but I finally made time to go this year. Primarily, this is because I've been listening to the podcast of the presentations from the 2005 Conference on the always excellent IT Conversations - so even if you can't attend, you can still learn a lot from the conference. The conference schedule is published as an iCal file so you can subscribe to it using a client like Apple iCal or Mozilla Sunbird and then pick and choose what you want to attend.

Lest you get the impression that I'm some jet setting conference hound, I assure you this is quite a rarity and I spend almost all of my time at my desk writing code! I think the last conference I went to was BloggerCon III. At any rate, if you're going to be ETech and want to talk about Collaboration, I'd be interested in talking to you.

Introduction

Hi and welcome to my blog! I'm an engineer working on Collaboration in Adobe Reader / Acrobat. Since collaboration is one of those blanket terms that can mean just about anything, I end up working on just about everything. Specifically, I work on the Review and Markup of PDF documents and allowing people to share their comments with others.

These are the different areas that I'll be discussing on this blog:

• Web Services (SOAP / WSDL / REST) for Messaging


• Service Discovery using DNS Service Discovery


• Customizing Acrobat with JavaScript


• Content Syndication using RSS and the Acrobat Tracker


• Acrobat / Reader Networking issues