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Kevin Hoyt

Platform Evangelist w/Adobe Systems

Kevin Hoyt is a Platform Evangelist with Adobe Systems, Inc. Passionate about engaging user experiences, you'll most often find him meeting with customers, speaking at conferences, presenting online seminars, or just enjoying the chance to share ideas and brainstorm with other developers. When not on the road, Kevin enjoys spending time with his family, photography and general aviation.

Presentations

Defining Rich

The term "rich" has numerous definitions and is highly subjective when the topic is user interface design.

In this talk we'll take a look back through time to reflect on the history of user experience, explore how web developers currently define "rich", and postulate about how users might interact with rich experiences in the near future. Along the way we?ll get a visual demonstration of why experience matters, and take a closer look at its impact on business competition.

Spry: Ajax for Designers

In this session, designers will learn first hand how to navigate the Ajax world with ease.

You'll discover how to load, sort and filter data from the client. You'll add advanced UI controls such as accordions, tabs and auto-suggest fields. You'll jazz up content with fancy effects such as fade, resize and shake. And you'll do it all with virtually no JavaScript whatsoever!

Featured Sessions

Deconstructing Prototype

by Nathaniel Schutta
By now, most developers have (re)discovered the much maligned JavaScript language and the plethora of top notch libraries have helped make this grey b

Data Integration Part I : Beyond Cutesy Mashups

by Brian Sletten
Ever since we started doing relational joins, we've looked for ways to tie data together. When all we had were databases, our integration strategies w

Debugging Ajax

by Venkat Subramaniam
Developing Ajax applications is a lot of fun, up until things stop working. In addition to the general programming complexities, you need to deal wit

Managing Client State Across Domains

by Ron Bodkin
Rich Web apps often need to combine information from different DNS domains, though needs vary from visual mash-ups to deep integration.

Ajax Performance Analysis: Employing the Latest Tools to Get the Job Done

by Ryan Breen
Ajax continues to raise user expectations for interactivity and performance, and developers are increasingly treating Ajax as a must-have component of

JavaScript: The Good Parts

by Douglas Crockford
Hidden deep inside of JavaScript is an elegantly beautiful programming language.

KEYNOTE - The State of Ajax

by Douglas Crockford
With Ajax, a name was given to immediately interactive distributed applications, and the focus of innovation has moved from the browser makers to the

Ajax development with the Yahoo! UI Library and Grails

by Scott Davis
Yahoo! is a company that eats its own dog food. They open sourced the Ajax code that drives many of their own websites, including their eponymous home

KEYNOTE -Beyond Ajax

by Jesse James Garrett
Having trouble separating hype from reality? Where is the Web really headed?

Killer JavaScript Frameworks: Prototype, Script.aculo.us, and Rico

by David Geary
A spinoff of Ruby on Rails, Prototype is a JavaScript framework that makes it easy to implement Ajax functionality. Script.aculo.us and Rico are frame

Filthy Rich Clients with the Google Web Toolkit, Part I

by David Geary
The Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is truly a revolutionary framework that lets you develop Ajaxified web applications without knowing anything about Ajax o

Featured Speakers

Jon Ferraiolo

Web Architect, IBM Emerging Technologies and manager of operations at OpenAjax A

Jon Ferraiolo is a member of IBM's Emerging Technologies group where he manages operations and leads various activities in the OpenAjax Alliance. Before joining IBM, Jon worked at Adobe for 13 years where he was an architect, engineering manager and product manager on multiple products and where he participated in various standards activities. More »

James Williams

Solutions Architect with RedHat

James Williams is a Solutions Architect for the JBoss Division of Red Hat. He is an avid Open Source evangelist that just happens to make a living doing what he loves most, educating others on how they can better use Open Source to make all of their wildest dreams come true. James is also an active Open Source contributor for several projects including Seam and JBoss ESB. He is a big believer in Open Source "chrom..More »

Greg Murray

Ajax Architect @ Sun and Project jMaki Lead

Appointed as AJAX Architect for Sun Microsystems, Greg Murray is deeply involved in the Ajax movement through his participation in the OpenAJAX Alliance and promoting of Ajax throughout the world. Within Sun, Greg lead a grass roots effort advancing the integration of client-side scripting with Java technologies and is the creator and principal architect of Project jMaki. jMaki allows developers to create Ajax web ap..More »

Nicholas Eddy

Application Architect - Electronic Arts

Nicholas Eddy has spent several years working in various facets of software engineering ranging from development of mobile client to server applications. Nicholas Eddy began his career in mobile application development after obtaining his degree in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University. He later moved to Yahoo! where he helped architect the server component of their v..More »

Matt Schmidt

Vice President of DZone, Inc.

Vice President of DZone, Inc.More »

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