reflexis flow @ lua workshop

["Ashwin Hirschi" <lua-l@...>]

It's been a while since my last Lua-l post... But with the 2011 Workshop  
just a handful of weeks away, I thought I'd say something about my  
upcoming talk in Switzerland:

In my presentation I'll discuss how Lua has helped us develop (and  
evolve!) Reflexis Flow, our model-driven platform for web application  
development.

Since many think that making software always involves writing & wrangling  
lots of code, I'll start by explaining how model-driven development  
tackles things differently. And as there are paradigms aplenty, I will  
present our particular take on it and why we feel Reflexis Flow provides  
people with an environment that makes it easy to create solutions for the  
web that are both flexible and secure.

Next I'll show how Lua has enabled us to take somewhat of a middle ground  
between a procedural, component-based world view and a more high-level,  
model-driven mindset, resulting in a web application platform that's  
straight-forward to use but also easy to extend. While Flow developers  
don't need to be familiar with scripting, it is fair to say that knowing  
Lua greatly enhances what you can get out of our platform.

Last but not least, I'll talk about several cases where Lua has really  
helped our team come up with practical solutions to specific problems.  
Time permitting I can, of course, also demo some of our tools or a few of  
the projects completed using Reflexis Flow.

Okay, I'll leave it at this for now. I hope to see many of you in Frick!

Ashwin.