 | Level: Introductory Scott Laningham (scottla@us.ibm.com), Podcast Editor, IBM developerWorks
13 Dec 2007 Listen to the project director and lead discuss the
effort in this 30-minute podcast.
Not familiar with podcasting? Learn more. In this podcast
John Boyer is Lotus® Forms architect and chair of the W3C Forms Working
Group that produces the XForms standard. In this 25-minute podcast, he digs
deep into how XForms works, its business value, and how it offers a
substantial improvement over common Web application technologies by
combating the coding complexity inherent in these technologies. Boyer
explains why he thinks XForms is the killer app of Web 2.0 and closes with
some resources for further education about XForms.
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About the guest  John Boyer is a senior technical staff member for IBM Lotus Forms. He has
co-authored and edited numerous W3C standards and is currently chair of the
W3C Forms Working Group. In 2001, he earned a doctorate in computer
science, and he has published numerous journal, conference, and
professional papers on topics ranging from algorithmics to computer
security to XML-related technologies.
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Podcast credits | 
| | Scott Laningham, host of developerWorks podcasts, was previously editor of developerWorks newsletters. Prior to IBM, he was an award-winning reporter and director for news programming featured on Public Radio International, a freelance writer for the American Communications Foundation and CBS Radio, and a songwriter/musician. |
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