Another Ajax Experience is over. We had a blast and it was tons of fun to see so many of our friends in the community and to have so much top-notch content. Many thanks to all those who came out, especially the speakers, many of whom came to present at great personal sacrifice. And, a tip of the hat to those who held some announcements for the show, such as:
• Brendan’s monkey triplets
• Adobe’s surprising URL state standards proposal and JavaScript Flash video embedding library
• Steve’s YSlow! library (Okay, this went to beta right before the show, but we’re claiming it)
• Greg’s jMaki RC
Now we're looking forward to The Ajax Experience East (Headed to Boston in October).
When Ajax took off it was a great boon for JavaScript/Web hackers. Suddenly we were taken serious again, and it wasn’t all about the server-side folk (Of course, many of us are also server-side folk!).
Now the world keeps expanding. We went from small components such as auto complete widgets, to rich forms, to “Oh, we can now make a really nice experience for our users”; From the phone (iPhone, Nokia, etc), to the desktop (Dashboard, Google Desktop Gadgets, Yahoo! Widgets) and offline (AIR, Google Gears, Dekoh), to applications within online platforms (Google Gadgets, Facebook) to the server (Rhino, Helma, Phobos, …) and more.
JavaScript and Ajax is everywhere. Let’s get together and really think about how we can help the overall user experience, and push things to the next level.
Check out the Boston tab above for all the details on the next conference, visit the Resources tab for quotes and photos from this year's TAE West, and stay tuned for details on The Ajax Experience '08.
- Dion Almaer & Ben Galbraith
Founders, Ajaxian.com