This session will explore the work that went into converting the BBC's programme catalogue database from an internal green-screen application into a public Web 2.0 application using Ruby on Rails.

IBM database team (builders of DB2, Informix, and Apache Derby) have fallen in love with Ruby on Rails, XML and Web 2.0. Come to this session to learn about the projects we have under way and what this can do for Ruby on Rails and Web 2.0 enthusiasts.

Web caching hasn't significantly changed in years, and many believe it's a casualty of a more dynamic, real-time "Web 2.0". That doesn't have to be the case. This session shows what's possible right now, and examines the future of HTTP caching.

Jabber, based on the IETF approved Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol (XMPP), is a streaming XML technology. This session discusses the publish-subscribe extensions of Jabber and their applications, like Atom-over-XMPP and Extended presence.

This session will discuss the uses of XML, REST and SOAP at Yahoo!, focusing on real-life lessons learned from extensive usage over the past 5+ years in Yahoo! Search Marketing.

Explaining how Rich Internet Applications enable developers and architects to build enterprise Web 2.0 applications by leveraging existing J2EE backend infrastructures and development metaphors.

Interested in DITA, the XML-based standard for written communication? This presentation, based on an actual case study, looks at the planning and development tasks that are required to implement a DITA authoring solution.

Case Study of an implementation of XML authoring in the Open University. Whilst Case Studies sometimes identify non-transferable experience, this contains practical information beneficial in guiding any organisation in the introduction of XML authoring.

This session will focus on a data access and persistence XML model and API that allows programmers to develop simple web applications that require a database.

How far can a PHP-driven web application get using XML files instead of a database? This presentation looks at an ongoing experiment using REST both outside and inside a web application, discussing the pros and cons of XML as a dynamic storage medium.

To meet the BBC's requirements for content model management, we built an OWL ontology in Protégé. Users of the tool can export content models to our CMS from the underlying RDF. Issues include applying the open-world model to closed-world problems.

The session will discuss the use of UML modeling for XML applications, including the pros and cons, practical steps, implementation strategy and project samples.

Software agents will need specialized search engines to find relevant and trustworthy knowledge on the Semantic Web. We discuss the underlying requirements and OWL and present Swoogle, a crawler-based indexing and retrieval engine for RDF documents.

A discussion of the ways in which NASA is using Semantic Web technologies like RDF and OWL to get a handle on its very complex data problem.

The Ning Playground provides excellent, free opportunities for those looking to design, develop or host new social applications and web services. This session covers Ning's many features for developers of new and existing apps.

Django is a full-stack Python web framework initially created to handle the challenges posed by a fast-moving newsroom environment. It has gained a strong community following in the ten months since its release as an open-source project.

Web-based editor and slide presentation tool using XHTML, CSS and JavaScript

Amazon Web Services Evangelist Jeff Barr reviews Amazon’s web services, including Amazon S3 (Simple Storage Service), Amazon Mechanical Turk, Amazon E-Commerce Service, Alexa Web Information Service, and Alexa Web Search Platform.