So the Roxen User Conference has come to an end. It’s always nice to meet with people who speak the same “language” (the language of the geeks perhaps), to share experiences and solutions. And of course it was nice to see the Roxen Editorial Portal in action. That’s a pretty cool piece of web based software. It was also nice to get a preview of Roxen CMS 5.0. It will have a few new features that will be nice and perhaps the greatest thing is that it will incorporate Pike 7.8 (which in it self hasn’t been released yet).
Anyway! For me it was a great experience talking to other Roxen customers and share some ideas and views. Oh, and one more nice thing: during the conference Roxen released a community site – planet.roxen.com. I hope it will be a great resource for us Roxen customers and users.
Ok, so now the first day of Roxen User Conference is about to end. The has been some interesting speaks today and a few new acquaintances. The most impressive thing is to have see how different companies and institutions have implemented the Roxen platform. To me Roxen is not just a CMS but a great development platform and from my new experiences from all over the world today my conclusion is I’m not the only one with that standpoint.
Of course there’s been a few drinks (beer, wine, whiskey and what not) but also some new friends and faces to known names. And of course there’s also been some sharing of code concepts and what not.
Tomorrow there will be some more hands on workshops. Roxen will demo their new “Link management module” which will be part of the 5.0 release. It looks really promising from the previews we’ve seen today.
In the 5.0 release they will also bring to live a new patch module which will ease the maintenance of a Roxen empowered server park in a tremendous way. That feature will be awesome.
One cool thing in particular is to have seen a demo of the Roxen Editorial Portal. A few newspapers are already running it located from Sweden to USA to Australia. A really cool achievement for such a new product! You guys at Roxen rules!
I will give a new sum-up of tomorrow’s events!
So after five weeks of vacation I’m back at work. The most sensational thing must be that I didn’t write a single line of code in these five weeks! It was a much needed break from computers and the longest one I’ve had for the nine years or so I’ve been programming. The vacation it self isn’t much to talk about. I visited friends and family and spent a lot of time in the sofa watching the olympics – and playing some Play Station 3 as well 
I also just bought an Asus EEE which I think is quite cool. I’m actually writing this blog post on it. I threw out the Xandros operating system and installed Ubuntu EEE instead which feels a great deal better. I’ve installed a lot of developer tools and they actually run rather smoothly.
Screen shot Ubuntu EEE
Roxen user conference
Next week, Thursday and Friday, I will attend the Roxen user conference which I’m really looking forward to. I’ll give a report from there when it happens.
