Julian Egelstaff
Julian leads the Formulize open source project, a data management platform that turns messy information and chaotic processes into beautiful databases that blend smoothly with how people actually work. In 1996, Julian got a Bachelor of Journalism and Philosophy, and naturally went on to 30 years in the software industry. In 2003, he co-founded Freeform Solutions, a non-profit web development firm, where the Formulize project began. Somehow, along the way, Julian became a Zend Certified Engineer.
Montreal 2027 sessions
Seamless cross-site embedding of forms and apps
English session - Intermediate
Dropping a working form or app into someone else's website is a lot more than a one-line iframe. This is a case study of how we stripped down the theme in an open source app builder to just the content, and then put back just enough so the conditional elements, form submissions and other features still worked. We'll look at origin management, session management, SameSite=None cookies, and negotiating scroll position and width with the host page.
The empty array is where your AI agent starts lying
English session - Beginner
Your API was designed for a caller that reads the docs. An LLM does not. It sees an empty array and invents a reason for it. This is a talk about designing responses for a non-human caller: errors that carry a recovery plan, empty results that say whether nothing exists or you simply cannot see it, why 404 can be the wrong status code, and why one polymorphic mega-tool loses to several narrow ones. We'll look at real code from a live MCP server.
Montreal 2026 sessions
Montreal 2012 sessions
- CMS 2.0: are we there yet?
- How CMS architectures affect dev. communities
- Table ronde CMS: le futur des Systèmes de Gestion de Contenu
