Peter Svensson, Owner of Mashup Station, is a consultant based in Stockholm, Sweden. A contributor to both Dojo and Apache Sling. Peter is an AJAX evangelist and front-end architect at Nethouse AB. He has been a Java programmer since the late 90s, specializing in network programming and encryption. A couple of years ago, he saw the JavaScript light and started blogging as the "Script Uncle" - http://unclescript.blogspot.com/.
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This is the first in a series of posts on what I saw, talked about and
experienced at the AJAXWorld conference this year in San José. On the whole
I was happily surprised to see a lot of companies present whose products and
talks were attracting a lot of attention, who were in essence advocating thin
server solutions across the border, wholesale.
A glimpse at Keynote Room at AJAXWorld 2008 West in San Jose, CA
My impressions of the conference as a whole and of the state of the industry
(which one might hope would have a correlation) is that the world is being
split in two. Luckily, most people isn't particularly interested in the bad
part :) What I mean by that is that a seizable portion of the talks and
booths revolved around products that continue t... (more)
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There were two different talks on server-side JavaScript - one from Jaxer and
one from the Phobos project. The Jaxer demo was very good. The presenter Ian
Selby made a small REST server implementation while we sat there, database
tables and all.
The 6th AJAXWorld RIA Conference & Expo had nearly all available conference
space at the Fairmont Hotel in San José, connec... (more)
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One of the AJAXWorld breakout sessions that I had anticipated most was Chris
Keene's WaveMaker presentation where WaveMaker's cloud strategy would be
unveiled. Chris gave a very thorough and Monty Python themed presentation of
the state of the cloud space today, with pros and cons of different solutions
and with a special focus on Amazon's EC2/S3 offerings.
Attenti... (more)
Peter Svensson, Owner of Mashup Station, is a consultant based in Stockholm, Sweden. A contributor to both Dojo and Apache Sling. Peter is an AJAX evangelist and front-end architect at Nethouse AB. He has been a Java programmer since the late 90s, specializing in network programming and encryption. A couple of years ago, he saw the JavaScript light and started blogging as the "Script Uncle" - http://unclescript.blogspot.com/.
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