About Sessions at The Ajax Experience

Learn how to build better, richer, more interactive web-based applications at The Ajax Experience. Brought to you by the founders of Ajaxian.com – the web’s largest online community of Ajax developers and designers – the Ajax Experience was created by developers who have direct, first-hand experience building Ajax-based web applications. Each session was hand picked to address the most common development and design challenges you face when working with Ajax and gives you the hands-on strategies and insights you need to advance your development and design skills.

Our sessions can be navigated by topic:

Frameworks
With all the options out there, how do you know which framework is the right one for your project? How can you keep up with new releases and updates? Are you confident you know which features you need to look for? The Ajax Experience features more than 20 sessions covering client-side frameworks, server-side frameworks and emerging frameworks including jMaki, jQuery, Dojo, DWR, Prototype, Google Web Toolkit (GWT), Scriptaculous, qooxdoo and more.

>> See all sessions on Frameworks

Design and Effects
Learn best practices for design in your choice of several hands-on sessions – Coverage includes interaction design; using Flash with Ajax; avoiding cross-browser issues; adding custom fonts with sIFR; Canvas; merging Ajax with accessibility; Silverlight and more. You’ll also hear a first-hand account of common pitfalls to avoid when developing enterprise Ajax applications; and find out what design patterns will ensure a ruined user experience.

>> See all sessions on design & effects

Performance
Ajax-based development brings efficiencies and benefits from a user perspective – and new performance and testing issues from YOUR perspective. Hear about current and emerging tools for monitoring, optimizing and debugging Ajax-based apps – including Selenium; an internal tool at Yahoo called YSlow; and Firebug.

>> See all sessions on performance

Security
Ajax pushes more data client-side, leaving a larger attack surface for hackers. Don’t let security vulnerabilities be the downfall of the applications you’re building with Ajax. The Ajax Experience offers multiple sessions on Web application security; common flaws in Ajax applications; and more.

>> See all sessions on security

Architecture
Building better applications is great – but what about building better, faster, scalable Ajax applications? Do you have the information you need to architect the right application for your business? Session topics at TAE include how to use reverse Ajax techniques like Comet to push data from the server, and best practices for leveraging JSF architecture to work with Ajax.

>> See all sessions on architecture

Advanced/Emerging
Already completed an Ajax project (or two)? Think you’ve got a pretty good handle on working with Ajax? TAE covers what’s changed with Ajax development (the release of Dojo 0.9, the trend towards offline, new security risks) and offers advanced sessions covering JavaScript; building rich database applications with Jester and Ajax; creating offline applications with Dojo and more.

>> See all sessions on advanced/emerging topics

Basics
New to Ajax? Attend sessions that give you a solid foundation on key Ajax concepts and essential toolkits and frameworks. Topics include JSON; client-side framework overviews, and more.

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Case Studies & Industry Leader Sessions
Learn from those who have gone before: The Ajax Experience features several case studies from large-scale projects to help guide your choices in your next Ajax-based development project. Learn about user interface best practices – and how the team quantified the impact of adding Ajax functionality – from a session around Netflix. Hear about common mistakes, efficiency measures and benefits derived from a project centered around creating an Ajax-based application for a top financial institution. And learn how interactive online tool Me.dium was developed after the team overcame daunting user interface and technical implementation challenges.

There are common pain points throughout every stage of developing and designing Ajax applications. And, for each pain point, there are dozens of vendor and open source solutions offered in the market. Evaluate potential solutions for yourself in these sessions led by Industry Leaders.

>> See all case studies and Industry Leader sessions

Keynotes
The Ajax Experience is proud to feature an all-star lineup of keynote speakers. Brendan Eich, CTO of Mozilla and creator of JavaScript will be on-hand to share his experiences in carrying JavaScript through international standardization, creating a roadmap for the Mozilla project and more. Adobe’s Chief Software Architect Kevin Lynch will also keynote and address questions around Adobe’s new cross-operating system application runtime code “AIR,” for which he is responsible. Rounding out our keynote presentations is Chris Wilson, Microsoft’s Internet Explorer Platform Architect. Attendees will have an opportunity to tap into Chris’s extensive knowledge of cascading style sheets, the Document Object working model, and more. >> Read full keynote biographies

Keynote: Innovation & Ajax, with Kevin Lynch, Chief Software Architect, Adobe

It's still early days in this new generation of application development, and there's a lot of innovation ahead. Kevin Lynch, chief software architect at Adobe, discusses ways we can together keep moving the capabilities of Ajax forward using the overall architecture of rich Internet applications as a guide. Kevin demonstrates how future enhancements in local data storage, secure cross-domain access, major steps forward for scripting on the web, Ajax video capabilities, declarative development, and the frontier of bringing Ajax applications directly to the desktop can make Web applications more effective, powerful and engaging for people around the world.

Keynote: The State of Ajax, with Ben Galbraith & Dion Almaer, Ajaxian.com co-founders

Join Ben and Dion as they walk attendees through the rapidly evolving and often confusing Ajax landscape, covering the important topics and trends that will affect how you develop web applications. Far from a fickle fashion, Ajax is continuing to revolutionize the way software is built, from providing the new model for desktop applications to the new model for mobile applications.

The Ajaxians will start the keynote analyzing the large impacts Ajax is having on the development landscape, including the latest in end-to-end JavaScript (i.e., JavaScript serving up JavaScript to the client) and server-less Ajax. They'll next discuss how the frameworks are changing to make development easier and it better address the challenges of cross- browser development. The final part of the talk discusses the state of the browsers, the Ajax community, and the future.

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