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Presentation: "The Web Platform"
Time:
Monday 16:15 - 17:00
Location:
To be announced
Abstract: A few years ago, Web developers discovered that browsers had hidden
within them a few capabilities that when properly utilized could
redefine the state of the web application art. Initially referred to as
'Ajax', these technologies have gone from being simple hacks into
becoming the foundation for an exciting new client platform--the Web
Platform. While Ajax was initially about wringing a bit more power out
of stagnant browsers, times have changed: browsers are evolving at
impressive speed, to say nothing of the Internet-speed evolution of the
libraries built on top of them. In this session, we discuss the state of
the Web Platform, including a look at the latest technologies and a peek
over the horizon at what's to come.
Keywords: Ajax, Web platform, web 2.0, visionary
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Ben Galbraith, Ajax consultant, author, JavaOne rock star
Ben Galbraith is the co-director of Developer Tools at Mozilla. Ben has long juggled interests in both business and tech, having written his first computer program at six years old, started his first business at ten, and entered the IT workforce at twelve. He has delivered hundreds of technical presentations world-wide, produced several technical conferences, and co-authored over a half-dozen books. He has enjoyed a variety of business and technical roles throughout his career, including CEO, CIO, CTO, and Chief Software Architect roles in medical, publishing, media, manufacturing, advertising, and software industries. He lives in Palo Alto with his wife and four children.
Dion Almaer, Ajaxian.com founder, Ajax author and loud-mouth
Dion Almaer is the co-founder of Ajaxian.com, the leading source of the Ajax community. For his day job, Dion co-leads a new group at Mozilla focusing on developer tools for the Web, which is something he has been passionate about doing for years, and is excited for the opportunity! Dion has been writing rich web applications from the beginning, and has been a columnist on various topics at ONJava, TheServerSide.com, openxource.com and of course his blog at almaer.com/blog.
He enjoys writing, and speaking at events such as JavaOne, Web 2.0 Expo, Future of Web Apps, Google I/O, JavaPolis, TheServerSide Symposium, and created The Ajax Experience. He also participates on the Java Community Process expert groups, and the open source community as a whole.
He enjoys the new Internet media that allows him to connect with the community, and thus created Audible Ajax, recently launched the Open Web Podcast with other industry gurus, and founded the Google Code Review show.
If you want to keep up with him, follow along on Twitter, or FriendFeed.
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