AjaxWorld session: Rob Tweed

Design-based Web Application Development: The Essential New Paradigm Central thesis: designers can’t program, programmers can’t do design. When programmers drive the project, design suffers and project goes off the rails....

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AjaxWorld session: Mark Meeker

Coding the UI: Lessons from ebookers and Orbitz Experiences from re-engineering of Ebookers.com and Orbitz.com. Change rate: 1971 changes to one particular CSS file in svn. Team of 20 developers;...

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AjaxWorld session: Steve Maryka & Ryan Moquin

General session by ICEsoft: How Can AJAX Improve Homeland Security? Instant communications for first responders. Demo/application built with British Aerospace. IceFaces: open-source, standards based. Ajax platform in pure Java (no...

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AjaxWorld session: Eric Farrar

It’s 11pm: do you know where your queries are? RIA platforms often wrap underlying database in some abstractions. Object-relational mapping. Hide database complexity. Inherent difficulties: database normalization is a different...

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AjaxWorld keynote: Charles Kendrick

Beyond widgets: what a RIA platform should offer RIA for business should offer specific capabilities for end users: richness is not an end in itself. Aim to cover the traits...

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