Pacific Northwest Software Symposium
September 15 - 17, 2006 - Seattle, WA
View the event details here ».
Ajax Architecture
Ajax applications have unique architectural challenges and opportunities. This presentation will show you how to take advantage of the Ajax's strengths, and work around its quirks.
Topics covered will include
Selecting an Ajax toolkit
Dealing with browser differences
Handling the "Back" button
Degrading gracefully
Marshalling data
Managing XML
Minimizing roundtrips--or not!
When Ajax isn't enough
Packaging and deployment
Prior exposure to Ajax and JavaScript is very useful, but not required.
About Justin Gehtland
Justin is the co-founder of Relevance, a consulting/training/research organization located in the Research Triangle of North Carolina. Justin has been developing applications with static and dynamic languages since 1992. He has written code with Java, .NET, C#, Visual Basic, Perl, Python and Ruby. He loves to talk, especially in front of people, but all by himself in the corner if he must. Justin is currently focused on: Rails (because its the law), Spring (because Java isn't going anywhere) and security (because paranoia is your friend).
More About Justin »
