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AjaxWorld 2007 is a wrap. It was my first time at this conference, and after three days, I’m still not sure what the personality of this show really is. On the spectrum between a technical conference and watching infomericals, it’s closer to the latter. Much closer. AjaxWorld was not a very large conference – I’d say no more than 1000 people…including vendors. As a result, the individual breakout sessions usually had 20 or so attendees.

The technical level of presentations varied widely, from vague strategies to actual technical presentations. I found the session scheduling to be really bizarre – early start, late finish, and either large gaps with nothing interesting, or lots of duelling sessions on similar topics at the same time.

We had steady traffic and interest at the SnapLogic table, where we demonstrated our current work with the dojo.data interfaces to SnapLogic. We had as much interest from the other vendors as we had from Ajax users, since everyone has the same data access problems.

A recurring theme during the conference was the increasing need for simple data access from the browser. It’s clear that Ajax is the preferred RIA development technique, yet few of the data interfaces available today are Ajax friendly, especially those inside the firewall. As the style of the Web moves inside the firewall, I expect the Web style of data access is to follow.

My vote for best session goes to Jared Jurkiewicz for his presentation on Dojo.data.

It was at the end, but worth waiting for.

I read this article on ZDnet today and it sent chills down my spine.
It describes the ethically-challenged business practices of a company called RapLeaf and their techniques to acquire personal information about people based on what’s publicly available in social networking sites.
As I read it I had a sense of deja vu because [...]

Today Snaplogic along with SitePen, the Mozilla Foundation, Nexaweb, Redfin and others are announcing the contribution of TurboGrids’ grid widget to the Dojo Foundation. You can read about it here.
This grid is important because it enables an entirely new class of ‘Rich Information Applications‘.
Rich Information Applications are AJAX-based Rich Internet Applications that [...]

I will be giving two talks at the OSDC 2007 (Open Source Developers’ Conference) in Brisbane, which runs from November 26th through the 29th. One talk deals with data integration with server side mashups. The other is about commercial open source development with Python.
If you are in that part of the world, do consider attending [...]

I’ll be presenting an overview of our SnapLogic project experiences with open source and Python at the BayPiggies Meeting this coming Thursday, September 13th. This talk is an overview that covers both our product development experiences and our infrastructure, which are mostly Python implementations. I’ll [...]