Ruby on Rails is a framework for rapidly and elegantly developing database-backed web applications. This tutorial provides an overview of all Rails features, from AJAX to Apache, demonstrating how development time can be significantly reduced.

This tutorial will provide a detailed technical introduction to both XQuery 1.0 and XSLT 2.0, and their shared language XPath 2.0. The XQuery section will provide attendees with a solid understanding of the syntax of XQuery expressions. The discussion of

We'll walk attendees through how to implement and publish microformats and long the way explain the princples and practices we've discovered while developing microformats.

XHTML2 gives improved usability, accessibility, structuring, internationalization, device independence, integration with the semantic web, and better forms processing. The speaker is the chair of the W3C groups producing the technologies.