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KEYNOTE - The State of Ajax

With Ajax, a name was given to immediately interactive distributed applications, and the focus of innovation has moved from the browser makers to the web developers. We are seeing now an explosion of application patterns and styles.

In some cases, the demands of Ajax developers have gotten significantly ahead of the browsers. How will we manage large applications? How will we manage offline usage? How will we manage security when the browser's security model is hopelessly out of date?

About Douglas Crockford

Crock is a product of our public school system. A registered voter, he owns his own car. He has developed office automation systems. He did research in games and music at Atari. He was Director of Technology at Lucasfilm. He was Director of New Media at Paramount. He was the founder and CEO of Electric Communities/Communities.com. He was founder and CTO of State Software, where he discovered JSON. He is now an architect at Yahoo!.

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Featured Sessions

JavaScript: The Good Parts

by Douglas Crockford
Hidden deep inside of JavaScript is an elegantly beautiful programming language.

KEYNOTE - The State of Ajax

by Douglas Crockford
With Ajax, a name was given to immediately interactive distributed applications, and the focus of innovation has moved from the browser makers to the

Anti-Patterns - Designing for a Poor Web Experience

by Bill Scott
Sometimes it is most instructive to look at design patterns in reverse-- as a set of anti-patterns. In this new talk, Bill Scott will explore the comm

Managing Client State Across Domains

by Ron Bodkin
Rich Web apps often need to combine information from different DNS domains, though needs vary from visual mash-ups to deep integration.

Ajax Performance Analysis: Employing the Latest Tools to Get the Job Done

by Ryan Breen
Ajax continues to raise user expectations for interactivity and performance, and developers are increasingly treating Ajax as a must-have component of

Ajax development with the Yahoo! UI Library and Grails

by Scott Davis
Yahoo! is a company that eats its own dog food. They open sourced the Ajax code that drives many of their own websites, including their eponymous home

KEYNOTE -Beyond Ajax

by Jesse James Garrett
Having trouble separating hype from reality? Where is the Web really headed?

Killer JavaScript Frameworks: Prototype, Script.aculo.us, and Rico

by David Geary
A spinoff of Ruby on Rails, Prototype is a JavaScript framework that makes it easy to implement Ajax functionality. Script.aculo.us and Rico are frame

Filthy Rich Clients with the Google Web Toolkit, Part I

by David Geary
The Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is truly a revolutionary framework that lets you develop Ajaxified web applications without knowing anything about Ajax o

Architecture for the Rich Web

by Nate Grover
Learn how to build components that persist easily and evolve well. Architectural and design considerations for building rich web components. Ensurin

Advanced Prototype: Ajax and JavaScript++

by Stuart Halloway
Building on the in-depth examination of the Prototype library from Prototype: Ajax and JavaScript ++, this session delves into the corners of Prototyp

Featured Speakers

Steve Souders

Author of "High Performance Web Sites"

Steve works at Google on Web performance and open source initiatives. His book, High Performance Web Sites, explains his best practices for performance along with the research and real-world results behind them. Steve is the creator of YSlow, the performance analysis extension to Firebug. Steve previously worked at Yahoo! as the Chief Performance Yahoo!, where he blogged about Web performance on Yahoo! Developer .. More »

Nicholas Eddy

Application Architect - Electronic Arts

Nicholas Eddy has spent several years working in various facets of software engineering ranging from development of mobile client to server applications. Nicholas Eddy began his career in mobile application development after obtaining his degree in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University. He later moved to Yahoo! where he helped architect the server component of their v.. More »

Tom Ball

Distinguished Engineer with Sun Microsystems, Inc.

Tom Ball is a distinguished engineer with the Developer Products Platform at Sun Microsystems, Inc., working on JavaFX tools. He has presented advanced technical talks at several JavaOne conferences, including the first JavaOne in San Francisco. Previously, Tom spent two years as part of the NetBeans team, integrating Java modeling technology researched while at Sun Laboratories. He also served as the Tools Arch.. More »

Stuart Halloway

CEO of Relevance

Stuart Halloway is the CEO of Relevance, Inc. (www.thinkrelevance.com). With co-founder Justin Gehtland, Stuart helps companies adopt agile, as well as innovative technologies such as Clojure and Ruby on Rails. Stuart is the author of Programming Clojure, More »

Douglas Crockford

Creator of JSON

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