I had a chance to give a talk about "Enterprise RIA Development Using Curl" at the Software Development Best Practices conference in Boston last month. Presentations at this conference are organized into 90-minute "classes." The length of these classes is a challenge but also an opportunity to tell the Curl story more completely than is possible in your typical conference presentation. In case you're curious about what gets covered in a 90-minute talk about Curl for enterprise applications, I've attached a PDF file of the presentation to this blog post.
The talk itself went well and the audience asked good questions. Afterward, I had a chance to attend a few other presentations. I concluded that the SD Best Practices team really vet their speakers much more carefully than average: the quality of the presentations that I attended was uniformly excellent, and far above what I have come to expect at a typical conference.
Curl was also invited to enter a team into the conference's Developer Bowl, a trivia contest about computer-related topics conducted in the style of the College Bowl. The other teams came from Cisco, IBM, and Nokia. In the first round, our Curl team, consisting of Christopher Barber, William Bardwell, Tom Lyons, and yours truly, triumphed over IBM. In the final round we were edged by Cisco on the final tie-breaking question.
Congrats on a good job!