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AJAX is not about Eye Candy. AJAX is about building functionality that is difficult or impossible with conventional web development technology. Done right your web applications ROCK, but it it’s done wrong and your infrastructure pays the price. This session will expose a collection of design and usage patterns that will help you understand ASP.NET AJAX under the covers and design efficient, interactive AJAX Applications using Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX Technologies.

In this session, Laurence Moroney, Microsoft, will introduce Silverlight 2.0 and how it can be used to easily and productively build next generation Rich Interactive Applications using C#, XAML, JavaScript, AJAX and more. He will demonstrate how to go from Zero-to-Hero as well as how to build more complex nTier applications with Silverlight at the front end, as well as using Silverlight with PHP, Java and other back-end technologies.

RIAs offer the potential to fundamentally change the user experience and in doing so, yield significant business benefits. The theme of this October’s AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2008 West is ‘Beyond AJAX to the RIA Era’ and the Call for Papers, which is currently still open, specifically encourages submissions from exceptional speakers with high-quality use cases of the fast-emerging RIA alternatives.

The notion of building ’social applications’ has taken the Web by storm. Today it is not only important to understand how to build Web or AJAX applications, but with the advent of the ‘Social Graph’, AJAX developer’s must have a solid understanding of how to build social applications that operate within the context of a social environment. To this end, OpenSocial provides a set of open APIs for building applications that can run on any environment supporting OpenSocial. In this session, I will cover all aspects of building social applications using the OpenSocial APIs. A high level introduction of the social graph is given, followed by a detailed review of OpenSocial’s APIs followed by demonstrations of practical examples. At the end of the session I will also review Shindig, which is an open source project that serves as a full server implementation ‘in-a-box’ for anyone wishing to host OpenSocial applications.

New interaction paradigms and complex user interface controls of AJAX have raised concerns about access and usability for users of all backgrounds and abilities. Client-side JavaScript code may assume certain language or cultural conventions, alienating vast audiences. Graphical and mouse-based user interaction is often assumed, preventing use by keyboard or assistive technology users. This presentation will review the issues and provide best practices for building accessible and globalized AJAX applications today, including the new W3C Accessible Rich Internet Application (ARIA) specification. This and other strategies used to provide full accessibility and globalization in the Dojo Toolkit will be shown.

Jon Ferraiolo will introduce the industry consortium that drives AJAX standards and interoperability: the OpenAjax Alliance. He will provide an overview of recent accomplishments, particularly OpenAjax Hub 1.0, but focus on new initiatives. Among the new initiatives are two mashup-related efforts: OpenAjax Hub 1.1, which is adding secure mashup and Comet support (extending existing features in Hub 1.0, which focused on simple publish/subscribe APIs), and the Gadgets Task Force, which is working on standards and open source around ‘widgets’ (i.e., mashup components). Ferraiolo will also review other OpenAjax initiatives, including IDE standards, AJAX security, Mobile AJAX and runtime advocacy.

In this session Jon and Sumeer will describe current work at OpenAjax Alliance on OpenAjax Hub 1.1 and secure mashups. Mashups have the potential for revolutionizing the way Web applications are developed, but there are security risks. In order to unleash the industry, OpenAjax Alliance is adding secure mashup features to its OpenAjax Hub 1.1 release. This new release will include a set of techniques called ‘SMash’ that were originally developed by IBM Research and allows for secure mashups that run in today’s browsers. The session will introduce mashups, OpenAjax Hub, and SMash, and will highlight related OpenAjax work around widget metadata standards.

OpSource delivers Rich Internet Applications and a unique Rich Web Technology as a service for on-demand companies, with hundreds of applications, millions of users and billions of transactions supported daily. OpSource On-Demand, the leading platform for Web application delivery, is defining how Web-based software is delivered. By choosing OpSource, companies are freed from investing in and managing the complex and costly infrastructure necessary to deliver applications over the Web. They can instead focus their resources on developing, marketing and selling. For more information about OpSource, visit http://www.opsource.net.

Are you trading stocks online today, or playing poker online? Ever asked yourself why many of these service providers require you to download and install a desktop solution? Wouldn’t it be better if you could receive information such as stock prices, betting information, sports, and news in real-time over the Web without having to install additional software or plug-ins? Kaazing, recently selected among the 77 companies invited to showcase leading-edge technologies at this year’s DEMO conference, claims to have the technology answer to this.

The iPhone is transforming the Web as we know it and compelling every Web designer to consider handheld portable devices. This session covers various aspects of iPhone and iPod Touch development. It will include tips and tricks as well as best practices to follow. Williams also covers how to use an integrated development environment (IDE) for building iPhone and iPod Touch applications and how to use the iUI library to easily build iPhone applications - the free, open source, cross-platform, JavaScript-focused Aptana IDE.