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Nate Grover

Javascript enthusiast

Nate Grover has spent nearly a decade building rich, dynamic web interfaces, including Ajax-style components on platforms where it should not have been attempted but somehow they worked anyway. In 2004 he founded his own consultancy Simple Dynamics, specializing in building rich-client interfaces.

Nate enjoys camping with his sons who are not yet old enough to appreciate getting away from it all but he hopes someday they'll see that Spiderman cartoons just don't compare. Actually, Nate also enjoys watching Spiderman cartoons with his sons ...

Presentations

Architecture for the Rich Web

Learn how to build components that persist easily and evolve well. Architectural and design considerations for building rich web components. Ensuring that the components are agnostic about the data source.

Building frameworks that minimize refactoring costs down the road. Also, preparing for javascript 2.0 and the porting of old components.

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

Nathaniel Schutta

Author, speaker, software engineer focused on user interface design.

Nathaniel T. Schutta is a senior software engineer focussed on making usable applications. A proponent of polyglot programming, Nate has written two books on Ajax and speaks regularly at various worldwide conferences, No Fluff Just Stuff symposia, universities, and Java user groups. In addition to his day job, Nate is an adjunct professor at the University of Minnesota where he teaches students to embrace dynamic lan..More »

Ron Bodkin

Chief Software Architect, Quantcast

Ron Bodkin is the chief software architect of Quantcast, an open ratings service for Web sites. Ron is also the founder of New Aspects of Software, which provides consulting and training on aspect-oriented software development and effective architectures for Java. Ron is also the leader of the open source Glassbox application performance troubleshooting project. Previously, Ron led the first implementation project..More »

Tenni Theurer

Manager of Yahoo! Exceptional Performance Team

Tenni Theurer manages the Yahoo! Exceptional Performance team, making products faster, better, and more efficient. She speaks regularly at conferences and recently published a series of performance blogs on Yahoo's User Interface Blog. Prior to Yahoo!, Tenni worked in IBM?s Pervasive Computing group involved in developing high performance enterprise mobile solutions. She worked directly with customers on large-scale ..More »

Nate Grover

Javascript enthusiast

David Geary

Author of Graphic Java, co-author of Core JSF, member of the JSF Expert Group

David Geary is the president of Clarity Training, Inc. (corewebdevelopment.com), where he teaches developers to implement web applications using JavaServer Faces (JSF) and the Google Web Toolkit (GWT). A prominent author, speaker, and consultant, David holds a unique qualification as a Java expert: He wrote the best-selling books on both Java component frameworks: Swing and JavaServer Faces. David's Graphic Java S..More »

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