November User Group:: AJAX update
Without a doubt, the concepts behind AJAX are providing the catalyst to move the web from its old clunky "send it all back the server for an update" into the thick client "desktop" feel the average computer user has come to expect.
Earlier this year we heard from the AJAX community to get a primer and snapshot of where the technology sat (click here for a meeting summary). This time around we're going to listen to two more players in the AJAX space:
- Max Carlson - Co-Founder OpenLaszlo.org
The Road to AJAX
- In the past, OpenLaszlo been regarded as a Flash-only tool. In fact,
OpenLaszlo is a powerful language for rich, custom declarative user
interface programming that's been under development for over 5years.
It's a powerful framework, and it has an exciting future as a single
(OpenSource) language that can target Flash, DHTML and soon,other
runtimes.
In this talk Max will talk about the process of
making OpenLaszlo a runtime-independent platform, including the first
year of AJAX. He will ive an overview of the current multi-runtime
architecture, includingtechniques for using and extending it. See an
overview of the language, and talk about the future of OpenLaszlo as an
AJAX platform.
- Alex Russell - President of the Dojo Foundation.
Dojo - Dojo is the Open Source Javascript toolkit that makes
professional web development better, easier, and faster. This talk
will cover some of Dojo's core APIs, including those for Ajax, Drag and
Drop, Animations, and AOP-style event handling. Alex might also discuss
some
of the stock widgets, various ways to take advantage of them, and how
you can use Dojo's package system to help make your own code faster and
more portable.
This should be a great opportunity to hear more about the technology and cut through all the hype to determine if AJAX is moving to prime time, or is it just another page in the browser wars (e.g. redundant code that conducts extensive checking of agent type in the HTTP header).
We're leveraging the presence of the AJAX Experience in Boston - please mark your calendars (note this not our normal date).
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