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Ajax
Developers’ Day to Kick Off XTech 2006 Conference
Industry experts offer insight into next generation of the
Web
ALEXANDRIA, VIRGINIA,
USA – April 25, 2006 – In
response to the rapidly developing world of Ajax user interfaces on the browser, IDEAlliance
(www.idealliance.org) announced today
that its annual XTech Conference will kick off on May 16 with Ajax
Developers’ Day. XTech 2006 (www.xtech-conference.org),
to be held May 16-19 in Amsterdam,
The Netherlands, is the premier European conference for developers and managers
working with XML and web technologies.
Ajax Developers’ Day is being
organized as a forum for web developers involved in creating dynamic Ajax-based
web user interfaces or toolkits, and will be chaired by Simon
Willison, technology developer at Yahoo! The event will also
feature a lightning demo session at the end of the day, where each presenter
will demonstrate his Ajax
toolkit or application, whether commercial or open source. Alex Russell, president
of Dojo Foundation and a co-founder of the Dojo Toolkit project, will provide
the keynote for Ajax Developers’ Day with a presentation on Dojo and the
future of the open web.
Other speakers and their topics confirmed
for Ajax Developers’ Day include:
- Simon Willison, technology
developer at Yahoo!, providing an overview of the Yahoo! User Interface
Library, a set of utilities and controls written in JavaScript for
building richly interactive web applications using techniques such as DOM
scripting, HTML and Ajax.
- Max
Carlson, lead runtime architect at OpenLaszlo.com, discussing upcoming
plans for OpenLaszlo and how they relate to the Ajax community.
- Jeremy
Keith, web developer at consultancy firm Clearleft and a member of the Web
Standards Project, focusing on the progressive enhancement of web site
development with Ajax.
- Simon
Wistow, web developer, discussing the use of Ajax to effectively blend solid code
with great web design.
- Sebastian
Schürmann, web developer at Mayflower and Thinkphp, describing the daily
experience of developing an Ajax
framework and applications in XUL and Javascript for Sixt Cart Rental.
- Kurt
Cagle, web developer and author of more than 15 books and hundreds of
articles on XML-based technologies, exploring how the use of Ajax and E4X together
will simplify programming web applications.
- Mark
Schiefelbein, director of product management for leading Ajax vendor Backbase,
presenting on using XML technologies such as XPath and XSLT to efficiently
manage Ajax-style interactivity.
“Ajax is a technology that
is poised to change web development,” said Edd
Dumbill, XTech 2006 conference chair. “As toolkits and
techniques proliferate, we want to help developers make the best choices, and bring
together the leading projects to promote cooperation and consolidation in
client-side technology. Attendees of Ajax Developers’ Day will learn
about the benefits and problems of Ajax
directly from leading practitioners. They'll also get the opportunity to share
their views about the direction that Ajax
should take.”
The theme for XTech 2006, “Building
Web 2.0,” recognizes the key role of standards-based and open technology
in enabling the next generation of web applications. This year’s tracks
include applications, browser technology, core technologies and open data with
presentations on topics such as Rails, Semantic Web, XQuery, and network
security. The full program schedule, with session descriptions, is available at
www.xtech-conference.org/. Mozilla Corporation and W3C are co-hosts for XTech 2006, and current
sponsors of the event include Justsystems, IBM and Adobe.
Simon Willison, technology developer at Yahoo! and chair for Ajax
Developers’ Day said, “This event brings together a superb
group of speakers with a great deal of combined experience and expertise in the
client-side technologies that Ajax
development incorporates. Ajax Developers’ Day is an excellent
opportunity to meet developers who are already creating the next generation of
the web.”
About IDEAlliance
IDEAlliance (International Digital
Enterprise Alliance) is an established industry organization with a diverse and
impressive membership that has been developing, educating and validating best
practices in publishing and information technology for 40 years. Through
special interest groups, conferences and its active membership, IDEAlliance
offers its members an inside track into how the publishing and content-driven
supply chain can and will be exploited to respond to both traditional and
emerging pressures to reduce cost, increase the top line, and develop new lines
of business. To learn more about IDEAlliance, please visit www.idealliance.org/, or call +1
703-837-1070.
Marion L. Elledge
VP, Information Technologies Programs
IDEAlliance http://www.idealliance.org
Celebrating 40 years -
1966 - 2006
Watch for upcoming events:
XTech 2006
Building Web 2.0
16-19 May - Grand Hotel Krasnapolsky
Amsterdam, The Netherlands
http://www.xtech.org
Extreme Markup Languages
7-11 August
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
http://www.mulberrytech.com/Extreme/
XML 2006
December 5-7 - Sheraton Boston Hotel
Boston, MA
Watch for details coming soon!
