This Friday, August 28 marks the $100 off early-bird deadline for The Ajax Experience conference, September 14-16 in Boston, MA. Friday is your last chance to save $100 off the registration fee. Visit the conference site to register now!
Below is the latest agenda at-a-glance with over 40 essential sessions, case studies, interactive panels and insightful keynotes from Dion and Ben of Ajaxian.com, Brendan Eich, Douglas Crockford and Ross Boucher. Register now to take advantage of $100 early-bird savings and join your peers right in Boston. This great offer expires on Friday, August 28.
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DAY ONE – Monday, September 14
7:00 – 8:00 a.m. Registration and Welcome Refreshments
8:05 – 9:05 a.m. Keynote: ‘The Future of Ajax: The Browser Reinvented’ with Ben Galbraith and Dion Almaer, Co-founders, Ajaxian.com
9:45 – 10:10 a.m. Refreshment Break, Peer and Vendor Networking
10:10 – 11:10 a.m. Choose between:
‘Design Tips for Dynamic UIs’ with Patrick Lightbody
‘Beyond IFrames: Web Sandboxes’ with Scott Isaacs
‘Building Accessible User Interfaces with jQuery and Fluid Infusion’ with Colin Clark
‘From Desktop to Web – Getting it Right’ with John Trelfa
11:20 – 12:00 p.m. Luncheon Keynote
12:00 – 12:50 p.m. Lunch and Peer Networking
1:00 – 2:15 p.m. Panel: ‘ES5: ECMAScript Standards for a Better Web’ led by Allen Wirfs-Brock
Panelists: Brendan Eich, Douglas Crockford, Mark Miller
2:25 – 3:25 p.m. Choose between:
‘Interoperable Ajax Tools and Mashups’ with Adam Peller
‘API Doc Smackdown: YUI Doc versus JS Doc Toolkit’ with Ted Husted
‘Even Faster Web Sites’ with Steve Souders
‘Designing for Interesting Moments’ with Bill Scott
3:25 – 3:50 p.m. Refreshment Break, Peer and Vendor Networking
3:50 – 4:15 p.m. New Technology Launch
4:15 – 5:15 p.m. Keynote: ‘The JSON Saga’ with Douglas Crockford, Author, ‘JavaScript: The Good Parts’; Creator, JSON
5:15 p.m. Ajax Experience Evening Event
DAY TWO – Tuesday, September 15
7:30 – 8:00 a.m. Registration and Welcome Refreshments
8:05 – 9:05 a.m. Keynote: ‘ECMAScript Harmony and the Future of JavaScript’ with Brendan Eich, Creator, JavaScript; CTO, Mozilla Foundation
9:35 – 10:00 a.m. Refreshment Break, Peer and Vendor Networking
10:00 – 11:30 a.m. Choose between:
Standards Session with Brendan Eich
‘Web Compatibility and Performance Testing in a Multi-Browser World’ with Imad Mouline & Ryan Breen
11:40 – 12:20 p.m. Luncheon Keynote
12:20 – 1:10 p.m. Lunch and Peer Networking
1:20 – 1:50 p.m. Vendor Tech Sessions
2:00 – 3:00 p.m. Choose between:
‘Advanced Web Application Security’ with Joe Walker
‘Adaptive Static Resource Optimization in the Ajax World’ with David Wei & Changhao Jiang
‘Object-Oriented CSS: for Scalable, Fast and Beautiful Web Applications’ with Nicole Sullivan
‘JavaScript: The Good Parts’ with Douglas Crockford
3:00 – 3:25 p.m. Refreshment Break, Peer and Vendor Networking
3:25 – 4:25 p.m. Choose between:
‘Ample SDK: Standards-based Runtime for Client-side Applications’ with Sergey Ilinsky
‘How to Simplify and Automate Testing Ajax Applications’ with Ted Husted
‘Web Services and JavaScript – Using and Offering Data on the Web for All of Us’ with Christian Heilmann
4:25 – 5:25 p.m. Ask the Expert Discussion Groups (Meet one-on-one with speakers)
5:25 p.m. Ajax Experience Evening Event
DAY THREE – Wednesday, September 16
7:30 – 8:00 a.m. Welcome Refreshments
8:05 – 9:05 a.m. Keynote: ‘The Future of Development Tools’ with Ross Boucher, Co-founder, 280 North
9:30 – 10:30 a.m. Choose between:
‘Improving Facebook’s Performance with Ajax and Browser Caching’ with David Wei & Changhao Jiang
‘Bringing Data to Life in the Browser with the YUI Library’ with Jenny Han Donnelly
‘Designing for the Mobile Web with JavaScript’ with Brian LeRoux
‘Building Voice Recognition and Audio Recording into Web Applications with WAMI’ with Andrew Sutherland
10:30 – 10:55 a.m. Refreshment Break, Peer and Vendor Networking
10:55 – 12:55 p.m. Panel: ‘Secure Mashups: Getting to Safe Web Plug-ins’ with Douglas Crockford, Scott Isaacs, Mike Samuel, Marcel Laverdet
12:25 – 1:15 p.m. Lunch and Peer Networking
1:25 – 2:25 p.m. Choose between:
‘The Challenges and Rewards of Writing a 100K-line JavaScript Application with Laurens van den Oever
‘Building Rich Web Applications with Ext JS 3.0′ with Rich Waters
‘Cappuccino Web Framework’ with Ross Boucher
2:35 – 3:35 p.m. Choose between:
‘Testing the Testers: YUI Unit versus QUnit’ with Ted Husted
‘Building a Web Application with Atlas, Start to Finish’ with Ross Boucher
‘Web. Smartphone. Future. Now.’ with Jason O’Keefe
‘ARIA – Pushing Accessibility Even Further and How to Get Your Boss to Join in’ with Joe McCann
The Ajax Experience is being held September 14-16 at the Hilton Logan Airport in Boston.
What are Lightning Rounds?: Lightning Rounds are 5 minute sessions are designed to showcase new cool Ajax stuff, cutting edge technology, new solutions and emerging trends; it is also an opportunity to get new information out to the community. Speakers are limited to 3-5 slides.
The Perks: The Ajax Experience attracts the very best experts in the field. In addition to free registration to the conference (for speakers unaffiliated with a commercial Ajax vendor), as a speaker, you will enjoy the prestige and satisfaction of presenting to the most active and committed members of the profession.
What to submit: - Your bio: 100 words or less with information that ties your presentation to your area of expertise.
- Your photo: jpeg file preferred.
- Lightning Round Proposal Form
Where to Send Proposals: Email your proposal form to ajaxexperience@techtarget.com
Thanks for your interest in speaking at the show!
- Dion and Ben
This is a friendly reminder that our free book giveaway for The Ajax Experience is about to expire. Anyone who registers between August 4 and this Friday, August 14, can take their pick of a book from our developers’ library (this offer is to sweeten the deal for those who didn’t get to take advantage of the $300 super early-bird deadline in July). Titles include: Javascript for Programmers, Ajax Security, Comet and Reverse Ajax: The Next Generation Ajax 2.0, Practical ExtJS Projects with Gears, Scripting Intelligence: Web 3.0 Information, Gathering and Processing, and more-valued up to $100.
And, don’t forget – not only will you get a free book, you also save $100 through August 28th!
August 28th marks the $100 off early-bird deadline for The Ajax Experience conference, September 14-16 in Boston, MA. Have yet to take advantage of early-bird savings? No worries. We’ve arranged a plan to sweeten the deal.
Here’s the scoop:
Anyone who registers for The Ajax Experience over the next 2 weeks can take their pick of a FREE book from our extensive developer’s library. Book titles include Javascript for Programmers, Ajax Security, Comet and Reverse Ajax: The Next-Generation Ajax 2.0, Practical Ext JS Projects with Gears, Scripting Intelligence: Web 3.0 Information, Gathering and Processing and more – valued at up to $100+!
The packed agenda is reason enough to attend, but we thought you’d enjoy a free book as an incentive for registering early. Register before Friday, August 14 and select a free book of your choice. A special thanks to our publishing partners for making this happen!
Sincerely,
- The Ajaxian.com team
PS – We’re considering putting The Ajax Experience online at a future date. Would you be interested in attending a virtual seminar? Sign up here to let us know you’re interested and to stay informed about future events.
A quick reminder that $300 off The Ajax Experience conference expires this Friday, July 31. The Ajax Experience is September 14 – 16 in Boston, MA. www.AjaxExperience.com
Over the past few weeks we’ve finalized over 40 key sessions across 7 tracks for The Ajax Experience conference, including Frameworks, User Experience, Standards and Cross-Browser Issues, High Performance and Scalability, Security, Architecture, JavaScript, and Cutting-Edge Ajax. The agenda-at-glance is ready for your review now. There’s something for everyone! Check it out
The Ajax Experience is September 14-16 in Boston. $300 early bird savings are good through this Friday, July 31.
Ajaxian.com’s The Ajax Experience gives you access to over 40 sessions presented by framework founders, independent experts and development leaders – all focused on proven solutions for current and emerging challenges plaguing Ajax developers, like performance, cross-browser rendering, security and architecture.
Keynote presentations examine advancements being made in JavaScript, CSS and browser implementations that you can leverage now to create quality Ajax apps. Plus you gain key insights into development tools that you can use today to cut weeks off development timelines.
See how to leverage new browser technologies on the horizon (and in most cases, largely already here) that will power the future of Ajax applications. Drawing from real-life examples of cutting-edge applications, Ben and Dion showcase Ajax innovations that you can tap into today to create compelling applications that users demand – including Canvas, faster JavaScript, Web Workers, Bespin and more.
There are many different development tools available and choosing the one that best meets your needs, and getting the most out of that tool, can be challenging and time-consuming. Ross Boucher shares little-known tips for developing applications versus web pages and websites, with a focus on JavaScript debugging and profiling tools as well as existing and upcoming development IDEs, including the much anticipated Atlas.
‘A Web of Confusion’ with Douglas Crockford, Author of JavaScript: The Good Parts
The browser is generally regarded as an incompetent blunder, crafted with horrendous security vulnerabilities which, 14 years on, still have not been repaired. Yet, despite the browser’s lousy reputation, when it comes to security, it is significantly better than everything else. Attend and hear Douglas Crockford uncover emerging security threats in the browser and the necessary steps to avoid putting your apps at risk.
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These are just a few key highlights of what promises to be the most educational web development event of the year or your money back – no questions asked. Sessions are being finalized but many are ready for your review right now! View the full agenda.
And don’t forget to take advantage of the special $300 savings before the discount expires July 31!
Register now to lock in exclusive $300 savings for The Ajax Experience conference, September 14-16 in Boston, MA.
It’s only been two weeks since we announced open registration for The Ajax Experience with the promise of additional sessions being added to the web site over the next few weeks. And while a number of your peers have already applied and taken advantage of the $300 early-bird discount (which expires at the end of next month), we’ve already added more sessions to our agenda, including:
The speakers and attendees at The Ajax Experience are working with the most advanced technologies today, building Ajax and rich Web front ends, as well as figuring out new ways to make response time still faster. And if security, performance, and SOA are important to you, you’ve come to the right place.
Your $300 discount expires the end of July – register now
If you have any questions about registration, traveling to Boston or bringing a team, please contact your Delegate Relations Manager, Jackie Anderson at janderson@techtarget.com or 781-657-1380. She’s more than happy to assist you.
”When the heck are you guys going to open registration for The Ajax Experience this year!?”
Over the last 3 months that is, without question, the most frequently received email we’ve had from Ajaxian members like you. The good news is that the wait is finally over! Registration has officially opened for this year’s Ajax Experience conference and best of all, we’re offering you $300 off when you register by July 31st. Check out our just-launched Web site right here for all the benefits we have lined up for you this year: The Ajax Experience, September 14-16 in Boston, MA
Please Note: While we’ll be adding the bulk of our sessions to our individual conference tracks over the next few weeks, we want to be sure you take advantage of the early-bird discount now. That said, we’ve once again confirmed today’s best and brightest Ajax minds from across the globe and we’re featuring a number of these keynote presenters and session experts for your review on the site right now, including:
* Ben Galbraith and Dion Almaer, Co-founders of Ajaxian.com
* Brendan Eich, Creator of JavaScript and CTO of Mozilla
* Douglas Crockford, Creator of JSON and Author of JavaScript: The Good Parts * Bill Scott, Director of UX at Netflix
* Ross Boucher, Co-founder of 280 North and the Cappuccino & Atlas frameworks
* Joe Walker, Creator of DWR
* Nicole Sullivan, Creator of Object-Oriented CSS
* David Wei and Xiang Chaong, Research Scientists at Facebook
* And more!
More essential speakers and sessions to be announced in the coming weeks, so stay tuned and start planning. One feature we think you’re going to love this year is “session previews.” Each morning we’re featuring 5-minute lightning rounds where presenters entice the audience to attend their session by giving them a brief synopsis of what they will learn. Now you’ll have even more exposure to new, cutting-edge technologies and proven solutions – and a better idea of how to spend your days.
Don’t delay, register now for The Ajax Experience to take advantage of your $300 early bird savings.
This week we opened the Call for Papers for The Ajax Experience 2009 being held in Boston, September 14-16. If you have experience with frameworks, techniques, or technologies that drive high performance Web applications, or build frameworks or other tools to enable the creation or test of Ajax applications, take a look at our call for papers to see where your talk may fit in.
We’re seeking a few good technologists and speakers for The Ajax Experience 2009, to be held in Boston on September 14-16, 2009. If you have experience with frameworks, techniques, or technologies that drive high performance Web applications, or build frameworks or other tools to enable the creation or test of Ajax applications, take a look at our call for papers to see where your talk may fit in.
Please click here for more details on what we’re looking for and how to submit your proposals. Here is the official submission form. Deadline for submissions is April 1st.
Following-up from our previous posting, we’ve got some more Ajax Experience videos. This post’s theme is JavaScript and JSON:
Advanced Animation & Physics in JavaScript with Paul Bakaus
Forget about Web standards and go way beyond the usual capabilities of Web scripting languages. Learn how to create stunning effects using canvas/svg/vml, how to control animated graphics in JavaScript, and how to merge all kinds of standards and technologies to create a whole new world of possibilities. Using Paul’s latest project as an example, he shows you how to adapt the things he talks about into new projects, featuring his new JavaScript game engine. Paul demonstrates how to control animated graphics in the browser, how to scale and rotate elements smoothly, and how to combine canvas, svg and filters with CSS to adapt new standards in browsers that don’t support them. See how to move physics from the real world to the Web browser. In this session you learn how to: Create a walking animated character; Replicate new standards using existing technologies; Combine new standards to create a new experience.
Adv JavaScript: Closures, Prototypes, Demystified with Stoyan Stefanov
The times when JavaScript was just a toy language for making image rollovers and other, more irritating effects, are fortunately long gone. Today developers build much more sophisticated and complex applications be they for the Web (GMail), the desktop (Firefox extensions) or the server. JavaScript’s prototypal nature makes its object-oriented features really different than “classical” languages like Java and C++, and we have to make sure we use the right tool the right way. In this talk you’ll learn about JavaScript’s most commonly misunderstood features and how you could put them to a good use.
Practical Functional JavaScript with Oliver Steele
This session covers how to use functional programming with JavaScript in real-life applications to implement client-side asynchronous processing, scheduling, and concurrency. These are complex areas that are difficult to think about or implement using straight object-oriented techniques, and become simpler with a handful of idioms that this talk demonstrates. Ajax developers (JavaScript or ActionScript) who are building applications that feature both ambient and reactive functionality, and that perform sophisticated tasks such as precompute display state or prefetch data, will benefit from this session. This session provides: A firmer understanding of closures and when to use them; Insight into implementing time-based and threadlike client-side behavior in the browser.
Applied JSON: HTTP REST, Ajax Databases & Beyond with Kris Zip
JSON has proven to be a very easy to use, yet immensely powerful data interchange protocol. However, by itself JSON lacks a number of important expressibility capabilities and efficient client/server data interaction must usually be customized. This session looks at how we can use various open specifications built on JSON to standardize and automate this interaction. We examine REST JSON, JSPON, and JSONPath. We also explore the capabilities of Ajax-accessible REST databases. The dynamic nature of non-relational databases can provide significant benefits for rapidly developing applications and providing JavaScript object persistence. Client-side code can directly participate in database interaction, simplifying the typical Web application stack. CouchDB, Persevere, and ActiveResource utilize a JSON REST interface. In this session, we learn how to interact with these simple interfaces and how to use JSONPath as a query language for JSON data stores. We see how these dynamic databases utilize JavaScript on the server for a consistent client/server JavaScript environment. We look at how Ajax databases affect security and provide an infrastructure for more secure Web applications. Finally, we cover JSON Referencing conventions as a mechanism for further expressing duplicate, circular, and cross-site referencing. Via a live demonstration, see how to use the Persevere open source tools to utilize these extensions to provide RESTful storage and server-side JavaScript. In this session you learn how to: Query JSON data with JSONPath; Use Persevere to provide a powerful persistence object store for JavaScript; Understand how JSON and the JSPON browser interacts with the Persevere object server; Employ JSON extensions and tools to enable open communication formats that can be used for rich and robust serialized object interaction between clients and servers with full object graph descriptiveness.
JSON SOA-based Client/Server App Dev with Kris Zip
JSON has proven to be a very easy to use, yet immensely powerful data interchange protocol. However, by itself JSON lacks a number of important expressibility capabilities and efficient client/server data interaction must usually be customized. This session looks at how we can use various open specifications built on JSON to standardize and
automate this interaction.
We examine REST JSON, JSPON, and JSONPath. We also explore the capabilities of Ajax-accessible REST databases. The dynamic nature of non-relational databases can
provide significant benefits for rapidly developing applications and providing JavaScript object persistence. Client-side code can directly participate in database interaction, simplifying the typical Web application stack. CouchDB, Persevere, and ActiveResource utilize a JSON REST interface. In this session, we learn how to interact with these simple interfaces and how to use JSONPath as a query language for JSON data stores.
We see how these dynamic databases utilize JavaScript on the server for a consistent client/server JavaScript environment. We look at how Ajax databases affect security and provide an infrastructure for more secure Web applications. Finally, we cover JSON Referencing conventions as a mechanism for further expressing duplicate, circular, and cross-site referencing. Via a live demonstration, see how to use the Persevere open source tools to utilize these extensions to provide RESTful storage and server-side JavaScript.
In this session you learn how to:
Query JSON data with JSONPath;
Use Persevere to provide a powerful persistence object store for JavaScript;
Understand how JSON and the JSPON browser interacts with the Persevere object server;
Employ JSON extensions and tools to enable open communication formats that can be used for rich and robust serialized object interaction between clients and servers with full object graph descriptiveness.
