Speakers

Alex Russell

Project Lead, Dojo Toolkit & Director of R&D, SitePen

Alex Russell served as Project Lead for the Dojo Toolkit from 2004 to 2008 and is Director of R&D at SitePen, a consultancy focused on the development of web applications, exceptional user experience, and pushing the limits of the web. Currently, he serves as President of the Dojo Foundation, an organization that supports development of several high-quality, open source, JavaScript projects and distributes them under liberal terms. Prior to joining SitePen, Russell was a senior engineer at JotSpot and Informatica where he helped both companies build highly interactive, web interfaces. His earlier, open source involvement included stints as editor of the OWASP Guide to Building Secure Web Applications and primary author of the netWindows DHTML toolkit.

Blog

Please Vote

Posted Tuesday, May 1, 2012

If you’re a web developer, please vote in Paul Irish’s poll on browser support. The larger the population that votes, the more we can trust the answers, and the data is critical to making sense of how we collectively think about browser suppmore »

Class Warfare

Posted Monday, April 23, 2012

And so we’re at an impasse. At the last TC39 meeting, after spending what felt like an eternity on the important topic of UTF-16 encoding, the last day hastily ended with two topics that simply could not be any more urgent: can we get something domore »

Hoisted From The Comments

Posted Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Some stuff is too good to leave in the shadows. On my Bedrock post, James Hatfield writes in with a chilling point, but one which I’ve been making for a long while: ”every year we’re throwing more and more JS on top of the web” The way things aremore »