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Learn Rich Web Techniques to
Take Your Web Development to the Next Level
The No Fluff Just Stuff symposium series is pleased to announce The 2008 Rich Web Experience coming September 4 - 6, 2008 to the Washing D.C. area. RWE 2008 will cover all of the hot areas of interest in the web space today: JavaScript, Ajax, CSS, Flex, Design, and more. RWE 2008 will feature 5 parallel tracks, over 35 speakers, 45 technical sessions, panel discussions, and keynote presentations. At RWE 2008 you will interact with industry experts, project leads, authors, and top developers.
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The Rich Web Experience is only a few weeks away. Register now to receive a free iPhone 3G and a free pass to a 2009 No Fluff Just Stuff tour event (an $850 value).
Special Bonus. The Rich Web Experience 2008 will be held concurrently with JSFOne. JSFOne will have an in-depth focus on the JavaServer Faces Ecosystem. Your registration to the Rich Web Experience will include full access to JSFOne conference at no additional cost.
Note: We regret to announce that, The Rich Web Experience West, previously scheduled for September 8th - 10th in San Jose, has been canceled. If you had planned to attend RWE West, we hope you will join us for RWE East September 4th - 6th in Vienna, Virginia.
Keynote Speakers
Molly Holzschlag
Co-author of "The Zen of CSS Design"
Molly E. Holzschlag is a well-known Web standards advocate, instructor, and author. She has served as Group Lead for the Web Standards Project (WaSP), has been an invited expert to the W3C, and has written more than 30 books covering client-side development and design for the Web. Currently, Molly works to educate designers and developers on using Web technologies in practical ways to create highly sustainable, maintainable, accessible, interactive and beautiful Web sites for the global comm... More About Molly »Douglas Crockford
Creator of JSON
Crock is a product of our public school system. A registered voter, he owns his own car. He has developed office automation systems. He did research in games and music at Atari. He was Director of Technology at Lucasfilm. He was Director of New Media at Paramount. He was the founder and CEO of Electric Communities/Communities.com. He was founder and CTO of State Software, where he discovered JSON. He is now an architect at Yahoo!.... More About Douglas »Featured Sessions
By Molly Holzschlag
While CSS might be the Web's Lingua Franca of presentation and design, it's
the Front End Developer who finds that he or she has to optimize CSS
documents, manage multiple CSS documents across any number of actual Web
pages, ensure that conflicts and errors are properly addressed and
effectively work with multiple browser hacks, conditional comments and
scripts related to browser compatibility.
By Molly Holzschlag
The Web was meant to be interoperable, but as every web designer and developer knows, interoperability is the very thing we lack. As we build standards-based, flexible, accessible, well-designed sites, we find it?s the browser that gives us most of our headaches. In this session, you?ll learn to take better control not through hacks and filters, but through an understanding of why browsers work the way they do.
By Douglas Crockford
Hidden deep inside of JavaScript is an elegantly beautiful programming language.
By Brian Sletten
You hear a lot of talk about rich clients, but the richness they purport to provide is predicated on having access to rich data as well as a rich user interaction style. Without the right levels of abstraction, it is hard to address and link all of the data we have to care about these days. Additionally, the web sites that do support the notion of linking require you to publish your data into TheirSpace. Forget that. You want to be able to link publicly available information to sensitive information in YourSpace.
Ever since we started doing relational joins, we've looked for ways to tie data together. The problem is, the relational model is a bit tired and doesn't move at the speed of the Net. We need schemes that integrate relational data, web pages, XML files, RSS feeds and various other sources of information.
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 or JavaScript. But the GWT goes way beyond basic Ajax by letting you implement desktop-like applications that run in the ubiquitous browser.
By David Verba
AJAX, new application frameworks and more iterative development processes means that many developers find themselves working more closely with designers or even being charged with design themselves. You know that a great user experience is key but how can make sure your project is a success?
By Jason Harwig
JavaScript's popularity in recent years has brought with it the attention of hackers, white and black. Both sides looking for ways to do things that weren't intended with the scripting language.
By Jason Harwig
Like it or not, JavaScript is the language used for any kind of web development. Since it's the only supported language of the browser, and customers demand rich web experiences, JavaScript is the king of the web. But, increasingly complicated user interfaces require a more disciplined approach to coding in the scripting language.
JavaScript's malleable nature allow it to be used in different programming paradigms including procedural, functional, and object-oriented. Unlike Java's class-based structure, JavaScript has a prototype inheritance structure that gives it great flexibility.
By Kris Zyp
With the emergence of JSON Schema and Referencing conventions, there is new potential for true distributed computing paradigms in the web by leveraging portable type definitions in combination with persistence and referencing techniques. These capabilities can be brought together for a powerful new paradigm of interoperable data and web services with coherent remote method interaction using JSON-RPC. We will see how applications can be expressed as portable persisted object graphs, and how referencing capabilities can provide a foundation for cross-site persisted object graphs and well-defined distributed applications. Mashups can be built with higher levels of coherency in a distributed persistent environment.
By Kris Zyp
This session will cover emerging technologies for secure cross-site mashups. We will look at new transport technologies including W3C's Access Control for Cross-site Requests, HTML 5's postMessage API, and Microsoft's XdomainRequest, and how to leverage these new features, and see how we can combine leverage new security mechanisms with the new dojox.secure framework.
By Mark Meeker
Can't we all just get along? Introducing Ajax and making a site accessible each present their own unique challenges to development teams. Most see these as being in direct competition with each other. But, by embracing some new development approaches they can end up being complementary. We will look at how best to tackle making Ajax-based features accessible and point out some of the added benefits that come with taking such approaches.
By Mark Meeker
When Orbitz Worldwide released a new generation of its global technology platform there were some lofty goals for the UI. They wanted to build a presentation tier (HTML, CSS, JavaScript) that would meet the goals of internationalization, accessibility, have rich Ajax interactions, and be faster and easier to develop in. This session will explore the key challenges in achieving these goals, including what worked, what didn't, and what's next.
By Nathaniel Schutta
Thanks to Ajax, JavaScript is cool again and developers are taking a second look at this much maligned language. This session will give you an overview of this misunderstood language as well as opening your eyes to some of the excellent tools available to ease the pain of developing in this dynamic language.
By Nathaniel Schutta
So you've convinced the boss that your new web application just has to have Ajax...but now what? With dozens of libraries making even the most blinkish of interactions trivial, how do you decided where to sprinkle the magic Ajax dust? This talk will give a plain old boring "web 1.0" an Ajax facelift with a focus on improving the user experience providing you with a game plan for introducing Ajax to your world.
By Neal Ford
This session discusses advanced Selenium techniques for testing web applications. It discusses techniques for both TestRunner and Remote Control Selenium, including data driven tests, creating branch points, testing Ajax applications, creating flexible tests, integration with continuous integration, and tons more.
By now, just about everyone has heard of Selenium, the revolutionary open source testing tool for web applications. This session takes Selenium to the next level, showing how to handle complex, real world scenarios in Selenium. It discusses Selenium setup for both TestRunner and Remote Control.
By Nik Krimm
Modern JavaScript libraries help abstract away cross-browser issues, and make hard things easy. However, performance is often an issue, and design choices by library vendors may have unexpected consequences downstream.
By Scott Davis
How optimized is your website? YSlow, a FireFox/FireBug plugin, doesn't pull any punches. It gives any website an A, B, C, D, or F rating based on 14 individual analysis points. You'll be amazed (or depressed) at what YSlow thinks of your site. In this talk, we'll walk through these points step by step, learning what Yahoo! (the creator of this utility) does to keep its web properties running as quickly as possible.
By Shashank Tiwari
Real-time event driven highly responsive systems are replacing their legacy pull based counterparts in many application scenarios. Driven by the need for faster and better decision making such applications are seeing rapid adoption in many disparate domains, including financial services, healthcare, telecom and transportation. Such systems have two main elements: (1) a fast event stream processing and complex event processing engine and (2) a highly interactive and engaging user interface, which gets updated as the underlying data evolves.
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Featured Speakers
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Brian Sletten
Forward Leaning Software Consultant |
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Christian Schalk
Developer Advocate and works to promote Google's APIs |
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David Geary
Author of Graphic Java and co-author of Core JSF |
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David Verba
CTO of Emmett Labs |
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Douglas Crockford
Creator of JSON |
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Jason Harwig
Senior Software Engineer at Near Infinity |
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Kris Zyp
Development Associate with SitePen |
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Molly Holzschlag
Co-author of "The Zen of CSS Design" |
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Mark Meeker
UI Architect at Orbitz Worldwide |
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Nathaniel Schutta
Author, speaker, software engineer focused on user interface design. |
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Neal Ford
Application Architect at ThoughtWorks, Inc. |
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Nik Krimm
Senior Architect with Orbitz Worldwide |
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Scott Davis
Author of "Groovy Recipes" & TDD Expert |
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Shashank Tiwari
Chief Technologist at Saven Technologies |
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Stuart Halloway
CEO of Relevance |
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Richard Monson-Haefel
VP of Developer Relations, Curl Inc. |
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Brian Sletten
Forward Leaning Software Consultant
Brian Sletten is a liberal arts-educated software engineer with a focus on forward-leaning technologies. He has a background as a system architect, a developer, a mentor and a trainer. His experience has spanned defense, finance and commercial domains with security consulting, network matrix switch controls, 3D simulation/visualization, Grid Computing, P2P and Semantic Web-based systems. He has a B.S. in Computer Science from the College of William and Mary and currently lives in Fairfax, VA. He is the President of Bosatsu Consulting, Inc., a professional services company focused on web architecture, resource-oriented computing, the Semantic Web, scalable systems, security consulting and other technologies of the late 20th and early 21st Centuries.
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.
David Geary
Author of Graphic Java and co-author of Core JSF
David Geary is the president of Clarity Training, Inc. (corewebdevelopment.com), where he teaches developers to implement web applications using JavaServer Faces and the Google Web Toolkit.
A prominent author, speaker, and consultant, David holds a unique qualification as a Java expert: He wrote the best-selling books on both Java component frameworks: Swing and JavaServer Faces (JSF). David's Graphic Java Swing was one of the best-selling Java books of all-time and Core JSF, which David wrote with Cay Horstman, is the best-selling book on JavaServer Faces.
David was one of a handful of experts on the JSF 1.0 Expert Group (EG) that actively defined the standard Java-based web application framework, and he's currently helping to define the next version of JSF on the JSF 2.0 EG.
Besides serving on the JSF and JSTL Expert Groups, David has contributed to open-source projects and co-authored Sun's Web Developer Certification Exam. He invented the Struts Template library which was the precursor to Tiles, a popular framework for composing web pages from JSP fragments, was the 2nd Struts committer and contributed to Shale.
A regular on the NFJS tour, David also speaks at other conferences such as TheServerSide Symposium, JavaOne and JavaPolis. David has taught at Java University and was twice voted a JavaOne rock star, for presentations in 2005 and 2007.
David Verba
CTO of Emmett Labs
David Verba is the Technology Advisor for Adaptive Path and the Chief Technical Officer of Emmett Labs. His many years of technical leadership and architecture experience cover a broad range of projects and strategies, including Sun, Java, Oracle, and a variety of open source technologies.
David served as Director of Technology for WholePeople.com, a large e-commerce initiative by Whole Foods, Inc., and was a core developer for CodeZoo.net, a web site for programmers sponsored by O’Reilly Media. He also provided essential technical leadership to Measure Map, a free web service (now part of Google) that tracks blogs’ traffic stats.
Douglas Crockford
Creator of JSON
Crock is a product of our public school system. A registered voter, he owns his own car. He has developed office automation systems. He did research in games and music at Atari. He was Director of Technology at Lucasfilm. He was Director of New Media at Paramount. He was the founder and CEO of Electric Communities/Communities.com. He was founder and CTO of State Software, where he discovered JSON. He is now an architect at Yahoo!.
Jason Harwig
Senior Software Engineer at Near Infinity
Jason Harwig full-time job is a senior software engineer at Near Infinity Corporation, an enterprise software development and consulting services company headquartered in Reston, Virginia. In his spare time he runs Pine Point Software LLC, writing Mac OS X applications in Cocoa/Objective-C.
His interests include Cocoa, JavaScript, OpenGL and user-interface design.
Kris Zyp
Development Associate with SitePen
Kris Zyp is a research and development associate with SitePen, a forward-thinking company that is committed to building and enhancing the open web. He represents the Dojo foundation on the EcmaScript 4 committee. Kris is the lead developer of the Persevere project and the JSON Schema format. He is actively researching and developing technologies in Ajax REST client/server architecture, JSON-RPC, JSONPath, JSON Referencing, and JavaScript persistence. He is also a contributor to Comet Daily and is working on RESTful HTTP Comet approaches.
Molly Holzschlag
Co-author of "The Zen of CSS Design"
Molly E. Holzschlag is a well-known Web standards advocate, instructor, and author. She has served as Group Lead for the Web Standards Project (WaSP), has been an invited expert to the W3C, and has written more than 30 books covering client-side development and design for the Web.
Currently, Molly works to educate designers and developers on using Web technologies in practical ways to create highly sustainable, maintainable, accessible, interactive and beautiful Web sites for the global community. She consults with major companies and organizations such as AOL, BBC, Microsoft, Yahoo! and many others in an effort to improve standards support, workflow, solve interoperability concerns and address the long-term management of highly interactive, large-scale sites.
A popular and colorful individual, Molly has a particular passion for people, blogs, and the use of technology for social progress.
Mark Meeker
UI Architect at Orbitz Worldwide
Mark Meeker is an Architect on the UI Engineering team at Orbitz Worldwide. He leads the the UI Engineering team responsible for building the presentation tier of online travel sites Orbitz and CheapTickets in the Americas and ebookers in Europe. His focus is on building rich, interactive and internationalized sites that are standards-based and accessible. Previous to Orbitz, he helped develop Britannica.com and earned a M.S. in Software Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology. He rarely blogs, but when he does it is at http://markmeeker.com.
Nathaniel Schutta
Author, speaker, software engineer focused on user interface design.
Nathaniel T. Schutta is a senior software engineer focussed on making usable applications. A proponent of polyglot programming, Nate has written two books on Ajax and speaks regularly at various No Fluff Just Stuff symposia, universities, and Java user groups. In addition to his day job, Nate is an adjunct professor at the University of Minnesota where he teaches students to embrace dynamic languages.
Neal Ford
Application Architect at ThoughtWorks, Inc.
Neal Ford is an Application Architect for ThoughtWorks. He is an architect, designer, and developer of applications, instructional materials, magazine articles, and video/DVD presentations. Neal is also the author of Developing with Delphi: Object-Oriented Techniques (Prentice Hall PTR, 1996), JBuilder 3 Unleashed (SAMS Publishing, 1999), and Art of Java Web Development (Manning, 2003). His language proficiencies include Java, C#/.NET, Ruby, Object Pascal, C++, and C. Neal’s primary consulting focus is the design and construction of large-scale enterprise applications. He is also an internationally acclaimed speaker, having spoken at over 30 developers’ conferences worldwide.
Nik Krimm
Senior Architect with Orbitz Worldwide
Nik Krimm is a Senior Architect at Orbitz Worldwide. He has spent five years driving the UI Engineering team, building world class user experiences and the technology that powers them, for Orbitz and CheapTickets in the US and ebookers throughout Europe. His passion is empowering developers building high-quality, standards-based rich user interfaces.
Prior to Orbitz, he cut his teeth at spectacular web flameout marchFirst, and built advanced SVG applications at eMac digital.
Scott Davis
Author of "Groovy Recipes" & TDD Expert
Scott Davis is an internationally recognized author and speaker. He is passionate about open source solutions and agile development. He has worked on a variety of Java platforms, from J2EE to J2SE to J2ME (sometimes all on the same project).
Scott's books include Groovy Recipes: Greasing the Wheels of Java, GIS for Web Developers: Adding Where to Your Web Applications, The Google Maps API, and JBoss At Work.
Scott is the Editor in Chief of aboutGroovy.com, a news and information website that tracks the latest developments in Groovy and Grails. He also writes a regular column for IBM DeveloperWorks -- Mastering Grails.
Scott is a frequent presenter at national conferences (such as No Fluff, Just Stuff) and local user groups. He was the president of the Denver Java Users Group in 2003 when it was voted one of the top-ten JUGs in North America. After a quick move north, he is currently active in the leadership of the Boulder Java Users Group. Keep up with him at http://www.davisworld.org.
Shashank Tiwari
Chief Technologist at Saven Technologies
Shashank Tiwari is the Chief Technologist at Saven Technologies (http://www.saventech.com), a technology driven business solutions company headquartered in Chicago, IL. As an experienced software developer and architect, he is adept in a multitude of technologies. He is an expert group member on a number of JCP (Java Community Process) specifications, JSRs 274, 283, 299, 301 & 312, and is an Adobe Flex Champion. Currently, he passionately builds rich high performance applications and advises many on RIA and SOA adoption. Many of his clients are banking, money management, and financial service companies that he has helped build robust, quantitative, data-intensive, highly interactive, and scalable high performance applications. He writes regularly in many technical magazines, presents in seminars and mentors developers and architects. His book on Advanced Flex3 is due for release later this year. He is an ardent supporter of and contributor to open source software. He lives with his wife and two sons in New York. More information about him can be accessed at his website (http://www.shanky.org).
Stuart Halloway
CEO of Relevance
Stuart Halloway is the CEO of Relevance, Inc. (www.thinkrelevance.com). With co-founder Justin Gehtland, Stuart helps enterprises adopt emerging best practices such as Ruby on Rails. Justin and Stuart founded the Streamlined Framework (www.streamlinedframework.org), and authored Rails for Java Developers. Stuart is also the author of Component Development for the Java Platform. Prior to founding Relevance, Stuart was the Chief Architect at Near-Time, and the Chief Technical Officer at DevelopMentor.
Richard Monson-Haefel
VP of Developer Relations, Curl Inc.
Richard Monson-Haefel is the author of Enterprise JavaBeans (Editions 1 - 5), Java Message Service and one of the world's leading experts and book authors on enterprise computing. He was the lead architect of OpenEJB, an open source EJB container used in Apache Geronimo, a member of the JCP Executive Committee, member of JCP EJB expert groups, and an industry analyst for Burton Group researching enterprise computing, open source, and Rich Internet Application (RIA) development. Today, Richard is the VP of Developer Relations for Curl, Inc. a RIA platform used in enterprise computing. You can learn more about Richard at his web site http://www.monson-haefel.com