"Front-end engineering rocks right now," says upcoming AJAXWorld speaker Christian Heilmann from Yahoo! "The era of boring web sites is over and we’re all into pushing the envelope, erasing boundaries and getting beyond whatever prevents us from building the next killer web application," he continues. "New companies building quick-turnaround web products spring up like mushrooms and many an old convention of web design is cast aside to make way for quick prototyping and agile development."
Heilman's session is but one of many dozens of high-energy, insightful technical sessions from the world-class line-up of speakers on the Faculty next week at AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2008 East, the 5th International AJAXWorld.
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The 5th International AJAXWorld Conference & Expo is being held in New York City, at The Roosevelt Hotel in midtown Manhattan.
Douglas Crockford, Architect at Yahoo! and Creator of the JSON data interchange format
DOUGLAS CROCKFORD Can We Fix The Web?
The
Web needs fixing. The standards and recommendations that define it were
last revised in 1999, since when it has grown from a document retrieval
system into an application delivery system.The
current Web is overly complex, visually underpowered, and hopelessly
insecure. It is now under competitive assault by new proprietary
platforms that hope to capture the next generation of applications. Can
a system as large and as open as the Web heal and adapt itself to the
challenges of the 21st Century.
Anthony Franco, UX & UI Expert, President of Effective User Interface (EffectiveUI)
ANTHONY FRANCO RIA Adoption in 2008 – Risks, Rewards, Challenges and Opportunities
Last
year, the overall demand for RIAs outpaced the qualified supply chain.
Industry analysts expect the explosive growth to continue in 2008. This
unprecedented increase in RIA adoption – especially by the Fortune 500
– will enable companies to hone their competitive edge and improve core
business practices with fast, reliable, productivity-enhancing tools. RIAs can provide your customers with user experiences that leave your competition in the dust. While the flip side of the coin is that the world of RIAs can be fraught with costly risk, if you keep the risks and rewards front of mind, you can turn the 2008 RIA challenge into successful opportunities.
About RIA News Desk Ever since Google popularized a smarter, more responsive and interactive Web experience by using AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript + XML) for its Google Maps & Gmail applications, SYS-CON's RIA News Desk has been covering every aspect of Rich Internet Applications and those creating and deploying them. If you have breaking RIA news, please send it to RIA@sys-con.com to share your product and company news coverage with AJAXWorld readers.
Gomez wrote: Steve
Souders is now at Google,
and the Google Code team
has taken some of the
advice from High
Performance Web Sites and
applied it to reduce
user-perceived latenc
It seems as though
whenever I bring up PNRP
and its benefits, I am
immediately inundated
with a list of questions
or comments indicating
that Microsoft is
re-inventing the wheel
and that PNRP has already
been implemented before
in the form of ZeroConf
and, more specifically,
Apple's im
Xceed launched Xceed
Upload for Silverlight,
the commercial offering
in support of Microsoft's
promising new Silverlight
technology. The product
is available now for
purchase or as a fully
functional 45-day trial
on Xceed's website. Xceed
Upload for Silverlight
lets developers add uplo
Mike Neil is general
manager for
virtualization strategy
in the Windows Server
Division at Microsoft.
Mike is focused on the
delivery of the Windows
virtualization
technology, including
Windows Server 2008
Hyper-V, Microsoft
Hyper-V Server and
Virtual PC 2007. Mike
also directs the tec
Microsoft is making
System Center, its
central management
scheme, natively manage
Linux, Unix and VMware
virtual servers. The
widgetry has always been
a Windows-only affair,
but now there are betas
available showing off
Microsoft's
cross-platform prowess,
important to Microsoft's
place
Brian Stevens, the Chief
Technology Officer and
Vice President of
Engineering of Red Hat,
delivered his
Virtualization Keynote
'The Future of the
Virtual Enterprise' at
SYS-CON's Virtualization
Conference & Expo 2007
West in San Francisco.
'Virtualization is the
hottest subject today,
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