WebWorks Futures

Keynote Description

The ePublisher platform is great today and it will get better tomorrow. In this session, the WebWorks team will present RoundUp attendees with a roadmap for where WebWorks and the ePublisher platform are heading. Starting with the core WebWorks business value ("Your Content, Your Way, Every Time"), attendees will see how focusing on that value led Quadralay to define and create both the ePublisher platform and the WebWorks Workflow. Further, the WebWorks team will demonstrate how that focus will continue to guide future product developments.

About the Speakers

Ben Allums

Ben Allums serves as the Director of Engineering at Quadralay/WebWorks.com. Ben started working at Quadralay back in 1994. Back then, Quadralay's primary product was a C++ development environment, UDT. As Quadralay needed a help system for it, Quadralay founder Tony McDow wrote a quick MIF to HTML translation tool. When Quadralay showed UDT to customers, they weren't too interested in UDT, but they thought that MIF tool was pretty cool. From that point, Ben became involved in the planning and architecture of a number of Quadralay Products:

• Publisher 2.0 - 3.5
• Publisher 6.0 - 8.0 (I was at IBM/Tivoli for a while)
• WebWorks Help 2.0 - 5.0
• An edit/review product with the initials FD which shall otherwise remain nameless
• ePublisher 9.0 - 9.3

So if you've got a question regarding current WebWorks products or if you're jonesing for a vintage copy of UDT on Solaris, send Ben an email at allums@webworks.com.

Jesse Wiles

Jesse serves as a Software Developer at Quadralay/WebWorks.com. Jesse started working for Quadralay in 2002, splitting time between Product Support and Consulting Services. Jesse's academic background is in English and he spent a good deal of time after college involved with Theater and Film. Jesse's interest in content conversion and software began when he got a job for working for an Internet startup in 1999. That startup used WebWorks Publisher to convert FrameMaker books for online use.