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Now What?
The past few years have seen a massive proliferation of platforms and approaches to developing web applications. Life used to be simple: target two browsers and you were done.
Now, we have a multitude of new browsers in a variety of environments including mobile, offline, desktop, web operating systems, and more. Distribution of web applications is changing too, with social platforms, app stores, and other deployment options becoming popular... it's become vogue to have applications that require a simple installation step! So what should a developer do next? What's coming down the road and where are things going? This talk will explore where the web world is going.
About Dylan Schiemann
Dylan Schiemann is CEO of SitePen and co-founder of the Dojo Toolkit, an open source JavaScript toolkit for rapidly building web sites and applications, and is an expert in the technologies and opportunities of the Open Web. Under his guidance, SitePen has grown from a small development firm to a leading provider of inventive tools, skilled software engineers, knowledgeable consulting services, and top-notch training and advice. Dylan is a contributing author to the O'Reilly book "Even Fast Web Sites". Dylan's commitment to R&D has enabled SitePen to be a major contributor to or creator of pioneering open source web
development toolkits and frameworks like Dojo, cometD, DWR, and Persevere. Prior to SitePen, Dylan developed web applications for companies like Renkoo, Informatica, Security FrameWorks and Vizional Technologies. He is a co-founder of Comet Daily, LLC, a board member at Dojo Foundation and a member of the Advisory Board at Aptana. Dylan
earned his Masters in Physical Chemistry from UCLA and his B.A. in Mathematics from Whittier College.
