The first "Real-World AJAX" event, held in New York City, featured 15
speakers in 11 sessions, including many of the the world's most renowned AJAX
experts, and more than 400 delegates attended while more than 15,000
SYS-CON.TV viewers tuned into the simulcast on March 13, 2006. Backbase news
blog called it "a great day, and certainly the first major Ajax Event in the
World!" Today, just ten weeks on, SYS-CON Events' timely "Real-World AJAX"
comes to Silicon Valley, to San Jose at its very heart, and the Faculty
lineup is if anything even more stellar than it was in NYC, including
Google's Adam Bosworth and Paul Rademacher, Yahoo!'s Eric Miraglia, Laszlo's
David Temkin and the father of the term "AJAX" himself, Jesse James Garrett.
“By now there isn't a software developer on earth who isn't aware of
the collection of programming technologies known as AJAX,&rdquo... (more)
"It's a continuation of the work that I've been doing the past 20 years,"
affirmed Larry Augustin, one of the most respected figures in open source and
the creator of SourceForge.net, the world's largest open source software
development community, as it was announced this week that he had
joined JBoss Founder and former CEO Marc Fleury on the advisory board of
Appcelerator, the Platinum Sponsor of AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2008 East
in New York City (March 18-20, 2008) and of SOA World Conference & Expo 2008
East (June 23-24, 2008), also in NYC.
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SYS-CON special correspondent and well-known author and teacher Yakov Fain
recently took the emerging (or re-emerging) AJAX development world to task.
Writing in his recent Java blog entry, Fain (pictured above) said,
"The idea is noble: instead of rendering an entire HTML page on each little
change on the page, it's much better to send an asynchronous request that
will get the data for you and refresh only the relevant portion of the
screen. (But) every author writing on AJAX is giving the same (the only?)
examples where this technology is being used: Google maps and e-mail. (BTW, ... (more)
Sun Microsystems announced the availability of Sun OpenSSO Express, a new
offering that provides enterprise support and indemnification for the
technologies available in the OpenSSO project. OpenSSO is an open source,
identity management project, providing highly scalable, high-performance
single sign-on, access management, federation, and secure web services
capabilities.
New versions of Sun OpenSSO Express will be released approximately every
three months to provide fast moving organizations with early access to the
latest technologies available in the OpenSSO community. New o... (more)