Summer is right around the corner - so before you make any vacation plans here’s one quick action item to cross off your to-do list: 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.
Cool things are finally happening with SVG these days. It’s showing up natively in browsers (including Firefox, Safari, Opera, Chrome and more). It’s natively supported on the iPhone, and work is happening in various open source communities to create options for Internet Explorer. Google uses it under the covers in Google Maps (to create vector line drawings showing where to go); Google Docs (for drawing into presentations); and more. Wikipedia, one of the top web sites on the Internet, has a huge repository of SVG images, while many tools such as Inkscape, Illustrator, and Visio can either export to SVG or work with it natively. Vector graphics support through SVG and Canvas is consistently one of the top voted requests by developers.
Since more and more is happening with SVG these days, we thought it would be great to host the SVG Open 2009 conference this fall in Mountain View at the Google campus from October 2-4, 2009. The theme this year is “SVG coming of age”.
We are looking for contributors to present papers or teach courses. Presenters are asked to submit an extended abstract in English with an approximate length of 400 to 800 words by May 15 to http://www.svgopen.org/. The abstracts are reviewed by a reviewing committee and presenters will be informed about acceptance on or before June 26. If your abstract is accepted, you will be asked to submit your full paper by August 31, according to instructions that will be sent to you.
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.
TheServerSide.com’s Java Symposium kicks off in less than 2 weeks! Our sister site has put together an impressive lineup of speakers and over 45 tech sessions and case studies that you should know about, like Identifying Browser Problems in Ajax Apps, Meet-up for Selenium, soapUI, HtmlUnit and Other Test Tools and much more.
And if you haven’t heard, Ajaxian members save an extra $100 off the registration fee with the code AJAXIAN!
The full agenda is available online, but here’s a sneak peek of the 5 most popular sessions being presented at TSSJS:
JavaScript developers now have another JavaScript-focused conference to attend. The JSConf 2009 conference will be exclusively focused on a wide range of JavaScript development topics and has lined up a great list of speakers. Presenting at the conference are notables such as:
Stoyan Stefanov of the YUI team
Francisco Tolmasky, co-founder of 280 North and the creator of the Objective-J programming language
John Resig, creator of the jQuery framework
Chris Anderson, CouchDB committer and co-author of CouchDB: The Definitive Guide
The conference will be held in Washington, DC on April 24th & 25th and is shaping up to be a great event.
You may submit any type of project that uses the jQuery UI CSS framework: public sites, demo pages or anything else that shows off your creativity and is publicly accessible (read: not behind a login).
You may enter as many unique projects as you wish; each will count as a separate entry. (Please don’t post the same one over and over…that may count against you).
The entry deadline is Wednesday, February 25, 2009 at midnight.
The contest winner will be announced on Friday, February 27, 2009.
The winner will receive a single pass to the SXSW Interactive Festival, which includes admission to the SXSW Web Awards ceremony on Sunday, March 15. We will email you an access code that will allow you to register for free. (NOTE: the pass does not provide entry to the Film or Music festivals, nor does it include transportation, room/board, or meals — you’ll need to cover those yourself.)
jQuery UI and Filament Group Inc. reserve the right to link to your project (we want to promote your hard work).
This Friday is the LAST CHANCE for Ajaxian readers to save $200 off TheServerSide Java Symposium, an event hosted by our sister site TheServerSide.com.
Every little bit helps in this economy - register today with the code AJAXIAN to pay only $1495 for the conference, coming to Las Vegas March 18-20.
You don’t want to miss:
Intro and Advanced sessions on Google Web Toolkit with David Geary, Author of Google Web Toolkit Solutions
We’re inviting all of the Java developers out there to an event organized by our sister site, TheServerSide.com, the Web’s largest enterprise Java community. As a member of Ajaxian, you save an extra $100 off the registration fee with the code AJAXIAN. (Register before January 16 to save a total of $400 and get a free book!)
TheServerSide Java Symposium explores current and emerging trends in enterprise Java and how they apply to your daily work. Choose from over 45 technical sessions on new technologies, best practices and practical tips from some of the brightest minds in the industry, including Rod Johnson, Neal Ford, Scott Davis and 35 Java experts.
The latest features of Spring, JSF, Wicket, Tapestry, Google Web Toolkit and more frameworks.
New Java language features, such as EJB 3.1, Glassfish and JavaFX
Popular open source tools, including Eclipse, Maven, Lucene, soapUI, HtmlUnit for testing SOA, Ajax and RIAs.
Expert recommendations on the use of Groovy, Scala and JRuby
Building and maintaining a large-scale SOA
How to create and consume RESTful Web Services.
How and when to use an ESB.
Best practices and tools for optimizing performance and scalability.
And much more!
View TheServerSide Java Symposium agenda to see all of the sessions being presented. Register now with the code AJAXIAN to save an extra $100 and to get a free book while supplies last.
I recently gave a State of the Open Web talk as part of the Google Developer Days overseas, in Italy, Russia, the Czech Republic, and Israel (I’m getting over a 10-hour jet lag right now - whew). The talk description:
“Come learn about the state of the Open Web, what it is, and why it is so important. In this presentation you will learn about the latest Open Web technologies, including the Canvas tag, Web Fonts, SVG, HTML 5, and see demos, code snippets, and the state of their implementations across browsers. Discover what you can use today (more than you’d expect!) and what remains to be done.”
[Disclosure: I work for Google on the Open Web Advocacy team]
We recently raffled off a free pass to The Ajax Experience on Ajaxian.com. Congratulations to Brandon Aaskov, our official raffle winner! If you’re planning on attending The Ajax Experience in Boston, September 29 - October 1, there’s still time to register.
The raffle drew over 500 entries from all over the world. Considering the worldwide appeal of The Ajax Experience, which major city would you like us to consider for 2009? We look forward to hearing from you!
Looking at standard development phases, as a background.
Lo-fi using stickies (post-it notes) to capture design features. Then lo-fi UI sketches. For some sites, this is where we would stop, no need to go any further because it’s obvious - can just go straight to detailed visual design.
Richard’s showing some detailed wireframes. These are actual web pages. ratemyarea.com - the final site ended up very different from the wireframe, but that’s fine. The wireframe contained all the basic content. Yes, CSS isn’t magic and they did have to re-code HTML and CSS, but still, can retain some things like usage of microformats.
Looking at sites like Kayak and Google Analytics with a ton of Ajaxy complexity. Can’t get a feel for this until you play around with it.
Patterns - design that can be reused: e.g. headers and footers.
Behaviours - e.g. progressive disclosure. e.g. including a lightbox in the wireframe because it’s trivial for us to put it in there (using a standard library, without bothering to customise it at this stage), and it is significant to the interaction, so we can see if it feels right. e.g. on e-commerce site, adding to basket updates the basket field - doing this in the wireframe lets us see if users notice the update.
Views - Exploring/experimenting with views of particular interest. e.g. how a significant table or list might be ordered.
Notes - Embedding design notes inside the page, using CSS to toggle them on and off. e.g. simulate login/logout by stylesheet toggle (not real login). (a specific css class for “logged in” or “logged out”). See polypage library.
That’s right, a free pass! We are raffling off one free pass to The Ajax Experience show in Boston, September 29 – October 1. That means that you can attend the $1495 event for free, courtesy of Ajaxian.com.
There’s no catch. We are giving away one free pass to The Ajax Experience. The free pass only includes entrance to the event, so if you don’t call Boston home, you still have to cover your own travel and hotel.
How to enter: Click here and enter your information in the form by Friday, September 5th. Please make sure to enter a working email address. Then we will pick one name out of a hat and one of you will receive a free pass.
We look forward to seeing you at The Ajax Experience next month!
The $100 early bird discount for The Ajax Experience expires today, August 22! Don’t wait! Register now to reserve your spot at the lowest price.
The Ajax Experience conference takes place September 29 – October 1 in Boston. Register today to save $100 with the early bird rate.
The Ajax Experience is the original and most in-depth rich internet application conference featuring over 40 sessions with top industry experts on such topics as cross-browser compatibility, choosing the right framework, best practices on balancing Web 2.0 features with speed, and many more. See our full conference agenda for what we’ve lined up for 2008.
The best part of The Ajax Experience is being able to hear what others are working on and get a feel for where the community is headed.
We look forward to seeing you in Boston next month!
The Ajax Experience conference takes place September 29 – October 1 in Boston. Register today to save $100 with the early bird rate.
On May 28-29 2008, we are having the largest Google event of the year: Google I/O.
Ben and I are talking in the Ajax and JavaScript track, which has other great Ajax content with speakers like Bruce Johnson and the GWT team, Mark Lucovsky and the AJAX APIs team, and Alex Russell of Dojo. There are also other tracks at the event covering APIs & Tools, Social, Maps & Geo, and Mobile.
I wanted to get the Ajaxian community involved, and then I saw some free invites on Mashable so I asked the I/O team if we could get some. They kindly obliged and we have 10 free passes!
To get one, please email or twitter with a reason why you should get a free ticket. The show is in San Francisco, so please make 100% sure that you can be there for those dates. Submissions can come in before midnight tonight, pacific time, and then selection will begin.
Yahoo’s Tom Coates today finally released FireEagle at ETech 2008. Seeing Tom in the office for quite a while getting everything ready makes me very happy to announce that it is out and invite you to come along and sign up for the beta to start testing and - even more importantly - developing applications for it. This is FireEagle:
Fire Eagle is an open location services platform offering web, mobile, and desktop developers a simple way to build new location-based applications while also ensuring that consumers have complete control over their data, including how, when and where their location is made available. Want to easily make your site responsive to a user’s location? Or, maybe you’ve found a way to capture someone’s location and you want to find cool apps to plug it into? By doing the heavy lifting and connecting you to a community of geo-developers, Fire Eagle makes it easier to build location-aware services.
Once you got in you’ll be able to download development kits in several languages including PHP, Python, Ruby and of course JavaScript. All the API calls are REST and the API authentication is handled via OAuth. The output format is either XML or JSON. The code is licensed with BSD and you can even contribute to the FireEagle source at a code repository.
The available API calls are:
user
Returns the location of a specific user in a location hierarchy format.
recent
Returns a list of users of the application who have updated their location within the given amount of time.
within
Takes a Place ID or a WoE ID and returns a list of users using your application who are within the bounding box of that location.
update
Sets a user’s current location using using a Place ID hash or a set of location parameters. If the user provides a location unconfirmed with lookup method then Fire Eagle makes a best guess as to the user’s location and updates.
lookup
Disambiguates potential values for update. Results from lookup can be passed to update to ensure that Fire Eagle will understand how to parse the location parameter.
The uses for a service like this are endless. From sensible search applications that show you places of interest nearby your current location up to real-life games of high-tech hide and seek everything is possible.
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Summer is right around the corner - so before you make any vacation plans here’s one quick action item to cross off your to-do list: Register now to lock in exclusive $300 savings for The Ajax Experience conference, September 14-16 in Boston, MA.
