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In the Spotlight - Christian Schalk

Christian Schalk

Developer Advocate and works to promote Google's APIs

Christian Schalk is a Developer Advocate and works to promote Google's APIs and technologies. He is currently engaging the international Web development community with Google's new OpenSocial API. Before joining Google, Chris was a Principal Product Manager and technology evangelist at Oracle in the Java development tools group. Chris also co-authored the book: "JavaServer Faces, The Complete Reference" published through McGraw-Hill-Osborne. Chris was also one of the original members of the Open Ajax alliance and helped Oracle and later Google join the alliance. Chris has spoken on Web, Java and Ajax development at numerous Oracle, Java and Ajax conferences, as well as Google related events including Google Developer Day and recently at Google IO.





















Presentations by Christian Schalk

Integrating OpenSocial into your Ajax applications

This session starts with a full review of OpenSocial technologies starting with client development with its JavaScript API followed by technical coverage of OpenSocial's server reference implementation, Apache Shindig. "

Google Ajax APIs

The Google AJAX APIs let you implement rich, dynamic features on your existing web sites entirely in JavaScript and HTML. Using this family of APIs you can add a map to your site, include dynamic search controls, or download and mashup feeds with just a few lines of JavaScript. "