Take Your Web Development Skills to the Next Level

Join us for The Rich Web Experience

September 4th - 6th, Washington D.C. Area

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Note: The Rich Web Experience West, previously scheduled for September 8th - 10th, has been canceled.

The Rich Web Experience is the event series that brings together web developers, architects, and designers who are changing the face of the web. You will gain a deeper understanding of emerging technologies, fresh ideas, and best practices. RWE 2008 is targeted at technical project managers, architects, developers and designers. Decision makers will gain valuable insight on how and when to use RIA technologies and solutions.

This event will feature industry leaders such as: Molly Holzschlag, Douglas Crockford, Alex Russell, Stuart Halloway, Nathaniel Schutta, Neal Ford, Scott Davis, and many more. RWE will focus on: web standards, Ajax, CSS, JavaScript, accessibility, design, security, and web framework selection.

The face of the web is changing rapidly. Don't fall behind. The Rich Web Experience is designed to bring you up to speed on the most important new technologies and best practices. This is a great opportunity to develop your career and bring advanced skills to your organization.

Register Now to receive a free iPhone 3G

Check out the event details for The Rich Web Experience to make sure you receive the best rate available. In addition, the first 300 to register for each event will receive an iPhone 3G!

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.


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Special Bonus: Free Pass to a 2009 NFJS Event ($850 Value)

All attendees will receive a free pass to a future No Fluff Just Stuff event! Each year, NFJS hosts over 30 events across North America. Do not miss our stop in your area! Check out our schedule at www.nofluffjuststuff.com.


No Fluff Just Stuff

Why is RWE Regarded as the Premier RIA Event?

  • 1). RWE 2008 is focused solely on the attendee; 90 minute technically focused sessions, all meals including Dinner and RWE Party!
  • 2). Top Flight Speakers
  • 3). Best Giveaways to attendees - Apple iPhone to 1st 300 registered attendees
  • 4). Capped attendance - 500
  • 5). Complimentary pass to a future NFJS show

Keynote Speakers

Molly Holzschlag

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

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 »



Some of Our Featured Speakers

Alex Russell

Alex Russell

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


Brian Sletten

Brian Sletten

Forward Leaning Software Engineer


David Geary

David Geary

Author of Graphic Java and co-author of Core JSF


David Verba

David Verba

CTO of Emmett Labs




Greg Wilkins

Greg Wilkins

Lead Developer of the Jetty Open Source Servlet Server


Jason Harwig

Jason Harwig

Senior Software Engineer at Near Infinity


Jon Ferraiolo

Jon Ferraiolo

Web Architect, IBM Emerging Technologies and manager of operations at OpenAjax A


Ken Sipe

Ken Sipe

Technology Director, Perficient, Inc. (PRFT)





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Designing for Ajax

Designing for Ajax

by Nathaniel Schutta
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.... Watch Video »

Prototyping the Rich Web Experience

Prototyping the Rich Web Experience

by Bill Scott
Bill Scott leads engineering for a new & upcoming Yahoo! site... Yahoo! Teachers a web 2.0 community allowing teachers to gather, organize & share web resources and lesson planning. For the past 1.5 years Bill has been the Ajax Evangelist at Yahoo! where he focused on spreading the goodness of "rich and sane" Ajax design & development. Bill is a frequent speaker at conferences and workshops discussing the nuances of good design and the challenges of great engineering. At Yahoo! Bill was also th... Watch Video »

Killer JavaScript Frameworks: Prototype, Script.aculo.us, and Rico

Killer JavaScript Frameworks: Prototype, Script.aculo.us, and Rico

by David Geary
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 wro... Watch Video »

Ajax development with the Yahoo! UI Library and Grails

Ajax development with the Yahoo! UI Library and Grails

by Scott Davis
Scott Davis is the founder of ThirstyHead.com, a training company that specializes in Groovy and Grails training.

Scott published one of the first public websites implemented in Grails in 2006 and has been actively working with the technology ever since. Author of the book Groovy Recipes: Greasing the Wheels of Java and two ongoing IBM developerWorks article series (Mastering Grails and in 2009, Practically Groovy), Scott writes extensively about how Groovy and Grails are the future of Java d... Watch Video »

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