This panel discussion is from the Ajax Experience, 2006. Panelists talk about the competition between different JavaScript frameworks, explore toolkit wrappers, server vs. client development, frameworks that generate javascript, formal performance testing on traditional vs. web 2.0 java shop architectures, and more.
Panelists inlcude:
John Resig – JavaScript Evangelist for the Mozilla Corporation and the author of the book ‘Pro Javascript Techniques.’ He’s also the creator and lead developer of the jQuery JavaScript library.
Brad Abrams – Group Program Manager, Atlas Team, Microsoft
Brad Abrams was a founding member of both the Common Language Runtime, and .NET Framework teams at Microsoft Corporation where he is currently the Group Program Manager for the UI Framework and Services team which is responsible for delivering the developer platform that spans both clients and web based applications as well as the common services that are available to all applications. Specific technologies owned by this team include ASP.NET and ASP.NET AJAX, parts of Silverlight, and Windows Forms.
Brad has been designing parts of the .NET Framework since 1998 when he started his framework design career building the BCL (Base Class Library) that ships as a core part of the .NET Framework. Brad was also the lead editor on the Common Language Specification (CLS), the .NET Framework Design Guidelines and the libraries in the ECMA\ISO CLI Standard. Brad has been deeply involved with the .NET Framework and Windows Vista efforts from their beginning.
Neil Ford – ThoughtWorks
Neal is an Application Architect at ThoughtWorks, a global IT consultancy with an exclusive focus on end-to-end software development and delivery. Before joining ThoughtWorks, Neal was the Chief Technology Officer at The DSW Group, Ltd., a nationally recognized training and development firm. Neal has a degree in Computer Science from Georgia State University specializing in languages and compilers and a minor in mathematics specializing in statistical analysis.
He is also the designer and developer of applications, instructional materials, magazine articles, video presentations, and author of the books Developing with Delphi: Object-Oriented Techniques (Prentice-Hall, 1996), JBuilder 3 Unleashed (Sams, 1999) (as the lead author), Art of Java Web Development (Manning, 2003), and No Fluff, Just Stuff Anthology: The 2006 Edition (editor and contributor).
His language proficiencies include Java, C#/.NET, Ruby, Object Pascal, C++, and C. His primary consulting focus is the design and construction of large-scale enterprise applications. Neal has taught on-site classes nationally and internationally to all phases of the military and to many Fortune 500 companies. He is also an internationally acclaimed speaker, having spoken at numerous developer conferences worldwide.If you have an insatiable curiosity about Neal, visit his web site at http://www.nealford.com
Glenn Vanderberg – Promiscuous Language Wonk
I am an independent software developer and consultant based in the Dallas, Texas area. My specialties are Ruby (including Rails), JavaScript and Ajax, Java, agile practices, and good software architecture. In addition to development and consulting, I do training and mentoring for groups large and small.
For the past four years (and continuing this year) I’ve been a speaker on the No Fluff, Just Stuff Java symposium tour. I’m proud to have been associated with it since its earliest days, when the typical reaction was, A software conference here in my town? How good could it be? Now, though, the NFJS shows have gained the reputation they deserve: they’re great conferences with terrific speakers and solid technical content. I also enjoy doing other speaking engagements.
Bill Scott – Ajax Evangalist, Yahoo
As Ajax Evangelist I have been a frequent speaker at numerous conferences, workshops and tuturials. Internally within Yahoo! I have worked with a large number of various Yahoo! sites to consult in design & engineering best practices.
Projects include My Yahoo!, Yahoo! Finance, Yahoo! Tech, Yahoo! Home Page, Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! Maps, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Photos, Yahoo! Travel, Yahoo! Teachers as well as others. Additionally, I have worked closely with the Yahoo! User Interface Library (YUI) team on early design and review of the library.
Doug Crockford – Yahoo
Douglas Crockford is a product of our public education system. A registered voter, he owns his own car. He has developed office automation systems. He did research in games and music at Atari. He was director of technology at Lucasfilm. He was director of new media at Paramount. He was the founder and CEO of Electric Communities/Communities.com. He was founder and CTO of State Software, where he discovered JSON. He is interested in Blissymbolics, a graphical, symbolic language. He is developing a secure programming language. He is now an architect at Yahoo!
Conrad Damon – Zimbra
Joe Walker – DWR Library
