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Architecture for the Rich Web

Learn how to build components that persist easily and evolve well. Architectural and design considerations for building rich web components. Ensuring that the components are agnostic about the data source.

Building frameworks that minimize refactoring costs down the road. Also, preparing for javascript 2.0 and the porting of old components.

About Nate Grover

Nate Grover has spent nearly a decade building rich, dynamic web interfaces, including Ajax-style components on platforms where it should not have been attempted but somehow they worked anyway. In 2004 he founded his own consultancy Simple Dynamics, specializing in building rich-client interfaces.

Nate enjoys camping with his sons who are not yet old enough to appreciate getting away from it all but he hopes someday they'll see that Spiderman cartoons just don't compare. Actually, Nate also enjoys watching Spiderman cartoons with his sons ...

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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

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Sean Kane

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Jesse James Garrett

Father of Ajax, Adaptive Path

Jesse James Garrett is the Director of User Experience Strategy and a founding partner of Adaptive Path, the world's premier user experience consulting company. He is author of The Elements of User Experience (New Riders), and is recognized as a pioneer in the field of information architecture. Jesse's clients include AT&T, Intel, Crayola, Hewlett-Packard, Motorola, and National Public Radio. Since starting in the In.. More »

James Ward

Technical Evanglist for Flex @ Adobe

James Ward is a Technical Evangelist for Flex at Adobe. Much like his love for climbing mountains he enjoys programming because it provides endless new discoveries, elegant workarounds, summits and valleys. His adventures in climbing have taken him many places. Likewise, technology has brought him many adventures, including: Pascal and Assembly back in the early 90's; Perl, HTML, and JavaScript in the mid 90's; then .. More »

Rick Ross

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Greg Wilkins

Lead Developer of the Jetty Open Source Servlet Server

Greg is the lead developer of the Jetty open source servlet server and a member of the experts group for the servlet specification from the Java Community Process. Greg has contributed to Geronimo, JBoss, activemq, DWR and other open source projects. Born in Sydney in 1964, Greg graduated from Sydney University with an honours degree in Computer Science in 1986. Since then he has worked as developer, designer, team l.. More »

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