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.

Blog

dojo.connect: Online Dojo Conference, Feb 10-12

Posted Thursday, January 28, 2010

Its been a rough year (or two) in the tech industry, and conference budgets aren’t what they once were. Dustin Machi’s doing his bit to keep the Dojo community connected by starting a fully virtual set of conferences, more »

Dojo: Twice As Fast When It Matters Most

Posted Thursday, January 28, 2010

Some folks have noticed a new landing page for dojotoolkit.org, one that includes hard numbers about the performa more »

View-Source Is Good? Discuss.

Posted Thursday, January 7, 2010

I’ve been invited by Chris Messina and some kindly folks at MSFT to participate in a panel at this year’s SxSW regarding the value and/or necessity of view-source, and so with apologies to my fellow panelists, I want to g more »
Read More Blog Entries »

Presentations