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The Ajax Experience Boston Oct. 23-25: Call for Presenters

Filed under: Web 2.0 News, Front Page, Conference — Ben Galbraith at 9:46 am on Wednesday, July 12, 2006

One of our goofs with the first Ajax Experience show was that the speaker selection process was somewhat closed. In an evening, we put together a list of some of the Ajax-related speakers we knew or knew of, invited them, and that was pretty much that.

For this year’s show (Oct. 23-25), we’d like to open up the process a bit. If you have interest in speaking at the show, please send a note to tae-speaker at ajaxian.com (replacing the ‘ at ‘ with @, of course). Include:

  • Your experience as a speaker
  • The topic(s) you’d like to address, including a brief abstract for each proposed talk
  • A brief comment about why you’d be a good choice for the topic(s)

We will be reviewing these emails and accepting new speakers to the show up until September 1, 2006; however, submissions received by August 4th will receive highest priority. We haven’t finalized the tracks at the event yet, but we’re very keen to see submissions on the following topics:

  • User Experience / User Interface design
  • JavaScript
  • Frameworks: JavaScript, .NET, PHP, Java, Ruby, etc.
  • Case Studies / Practical advice learned from developing real Ajax applications

Thanks!

Web Directions 06 (Sydney, September 26-29)

Filed under: Web 2.0 News, Front Page, Conference — Michael Mahemoff at 2:51 am on Saturday, July 8, 2006

webdirections 06, the successor to Web Essentials 04 and 05, will be held in Sydney on September 26-29.

Over two big days of WD06, plus two days of workshops, you’ll hear from international speakers: Kelly Goto, Derek Featherstone, Jeremy Keith, Thomas Vander Wal, Andy Clarke and Molly Holzschlag, as well as all the local folk, who have also been doing some pretty exciting things this last year:

  • standards based development with (X)HTML, CSS, DOM scripting and AJAX
  • the latest design approaches
  • web app design and development
  • user experience interaction design
  • information architecture, including tag clouds and folksonomies
  • website and web app accessibility
  • workflow and strategy
  • RSS and syndication
  • designing for mobile devices
  • user generated content
  • moving your organisation to web standards

Of special interest here, Jeremy Keith will be presenting a one-day workshop on Ajax.
Details of the one-day Ajax workshop.

The Ajax Experience Fall 2006 - Boston

Filed under: Web 2.0 News, Front Page, Conference — Ben Galbraith at 6:47 pm on Thursday, July 6, 2006

After having a delightfully fun time at the Ajax Experience conference this past spring, we’ve been busily working on the next one. We’re happy to announce that we’re putting on the next Ajax Experience show in Boston on October 23 - 25. We’ll follow up with more details in the coming days. We hope you can join us!

d.Construct 2006 Announced

Filed under: Web 2.0 News, Front Page, Conference — Michael Mahemoff at 5:38 pm on Sunday, June 25, 2006

d.Construct 2006 has been announced. Andy Budd says:

It’s a low cost, hackers conference covering web applications and web 2.0. This years event is all about mash-ups and API’s, so they’ll undoubtedly a lot of Ajax floating around. We’ve even got a session on accessible Ajax which should be good.

It’s in Brighton, UK, on September 8th, with the following speakers:

  • Jeff Veen
  • Jeremy Keith
  • Simon Willison
  • Paul Hammond
  • Derek Featherstone
  • Thomas Vander Wal
  • Aral Balkan
  • Jeff Barr

RailsConf 2006: Rails on Ajax by Justin Gehtland

Filed under: Web 2.0 News, Front Page, Ajax, Prototype, Conference, Ruby, Presentation — Rob Sanheim at 2:09 pm on Saturday, June 24, 2006

(Note From Rob: This session write up comes courtesy of Jim Halberg. Jim is not an official Ajaxian, though he dreams about being one when he grows up. Thanks, Jim!)

Are we still at the point where a talk on ajax must start with the "What is ajax?" question? Well, at least the explanations seem to be getting shorter =) (Rob: note to conference speakers - can we please just assume basic Ajax knowledge at this point?!)

Justin spent the majority of the presentation showing uncluttered examples of various Rails/Ajax/Prototype capabilities. Auto-complete search, drag-drop, and the like. These were delivered in a "if you haven't played with this yet" sort of way but he also managed to keep it quick enough - and drop in enough 'even if you've done this before you may not know about this' tidbits to keep the more experienced portion of the audience interested.

There was some talk on RJS and he spent some time on the always requested ajax topics… How do you deal with JavaScript disabled? What if a user has an old browser? How do you handle the introduction of new idioms?

The presentation ended with a bang as he demo'd creating an application with the soon to be released Streamlined. Streamlined is an open source framework, developed by Relevance LLC, to bring the simplicity of ActiveRecord to the view layer (coincidentally, this is #2 of the "3 Unsolved Problems" posed in Dave Thomas keynote yesterday). This is really slick - a lot of functionality - good looking (although they are looking for a designer to contribute some improvements) - and best of all: _very_ quick and powerful. I'm definitely looking forward to this being released at OSCON.

Ajaxians invade RailsConf 2006

Filed under: Web 2.0 News, Front Page, Conference, Ruby, Web20 — Rob Sanheim at 12:01 am on Friday, June 23, 2006

Well, at least I'll be heading to RailsConf tomorrow morning, and attempting to live blog as much ajax related content as possible. Ajaxian-in-training and coworker Jim Halberg will be there, as well. If Dion can recover from his twenty hours of flying, he might also make a celebrity appearance. If any readers are heading down and would like to hit up a bar or club, just holler at us.

As for Ajax sessions, I'll be attending Rails, Ajax and Universal Design, Lazlo on Rails, and possibly Justin's Ajax on Rails. Are there other sessions you would like to see coverage of from Ajaxian? If we cover non-Ajax specific sessions here, will you be pissed off? Will we ever fix the comment system?

We put these pressing questions to you, the Ajax community.