Alex Russell

Project Lead, Dojo Toolkit & Director of R&D, SitePen

Alex Russell
Alex Russell served as Project Lead for the Dojo Toolkit from 2004 to 2008 and is Director of R&D at SitePen, a consultancy focused on the development of web applications, exceptional user experience, and pushing the limits of the web. Currently, he serves as President of the Dojo Foundation, an organization that supports development of several high-quality, open source, JavaScript projects and distributes them under liberal terms. Prior to joining SitePen, Russell was a senior engineer at JotSpot and Informatica where he helped both companies build highly interactive, web interfaces. His earlier, open source involvement included stints as editor of the OWASP Guide to Building Secure Web Applications and primary author of the netWindows DHTML toolkit.

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Blog Move

Posted Wednesday, August 18, 2010

I’ve been meaning to move this blog off a sub-domain affixed to the Dojo Project for some time, but I finally got all the pieces lined up last night. This blog will continue to be technical in nature and I’ll set up another location here on more »

When Free Isn’t Cheap Enough

Posted Tuesday, August 10, 2010

The concepts of negative externality and moral hazard describe situations where one person can impose costs on another without paying for it, often resulting in less-than optimal outcomes for everyone. That sounds a lot like what’s going on with o more »

Side-by-side Chrome Versions Now Supported

Posted Thursday, July 22, 2010

Side-by-side versions of different browsers are critical for us webdevs. On some browsers, it’s because multi-year-old versions are still prevalent (luckily, you can start ignoring them). In the case of Chrome, nearly all users are up-to-date with more »
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