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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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Benchmarking Is Hard: Reddit Edition

Posted Wednesday, June 24, 2009

In which I partially defend Microsoft and further lament the state of tech “journalism”. A very short open letter: Dear interwebs: Please stop mis-representing the results of benchmarks. Or, at a minimum, please sto more »

Online Shrinksafe App Fixed

Posted Wednesday, June 24, 2009

I’m not sure how long it was b0rked, but the online ShrinkSafe more »

A Visual History of Dojo

Posted Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Dojo’s has as long a history as any chunk of JavaScript in wide use, and it’s easy to forget how long the road has been and how far the project has come. Will of the Lucid Desktop project has put together a code_swarm more »
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Dojo Cookbook

Recipes for developing and optimizing large applications with dojo more »

Dojo's Standards Heresy and the Rise of Pragmatism on the Open Web

The web standards crowd is hurting you, your users, and the Open Web. While other speakers will paint a rosy picture of standards, this talk will explore the dark side of standards and explain why Ajax (nee DHTML) developers have long chuckled quietly whe more »

Dojo Cookbook

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Alex Russell By Alex Russell
Recipes for developing and optimizing large applications with dojo.

In this talk we'll touch on a variety of dojo topics including using dojo's RPC mechanisms, Deferreds and DeferredLists, creating Dojo builds and other useful techniques for making large single page applications perform well in a browser environment.

Dojo's Standards Heresy and the Rise of Pragmatism on the Open Web

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Alex Russell By Alex Russell
The web standards crowd is hurting you, your users, and the Open Web. While other speakers will paint a rosy picture of standards, this talk will explore the dark side of standards and explain why Ajax (nee DHTML) developers have long chuckled quietly when well-meaning developers explain how semantic markup and CSS will save us.

We'll also talk about how browser vendors have let us down, why Ajax toolkits shouldn't be necessaray, and how the web development community can clear the collective haze of web standards and semantic web zealotry.