{"id":654,"date":"2007-10-26T21:29:00","date_gmt":"2007-10-27T02:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/?p=654"},"modified":"2008-04-16T13:44:19","modified_gmt":"2008-04-16T18:44:19","slug":"ajax-experience-wrapup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/2007\/10\/26\/ajax-experience-wrapup\/","title":{"rendered":"Ajax Experience: Wrapup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ajaxexperience.techtarget.com\/east\/\">Ajax Experience 2007 East<\/a> is done.  Another great show with really great content and really engaged attendees.<\/p>\n<p>The final day started out with a keynote from Aza Raskin of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.humanized.com\/weblog\/\">Humanized <\/a>fame, who among other things highlighted the <a href=\"http:\/\/unspace.ca\/discover\/pageless\/\">Endless Pageless<\/a> pattern that fellow Canadian Pete Forde talked about in an article last year.<\/p>\n<p>I gave my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ashleyit.com\/ajax\/transports.htm\">Ajax Transport Layers<\/a> talk to a modest yet receptive audience.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/crockford.com\">Doug Crockford<\/a>&#8216;s JSON talk was up to his usual standard.  <\/p>\n<p>In the afternoon there was an animated panel discussion on Ajax Futures, with <a href=\"http:\/\/ejohn.com\">John Resig<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/mozilla.org\">Mozilla<\/a>, Andre Charland of <a href=\"http:\/\/nitobi.com\">Nitobi<\/a>, Douglas Crockford and Aza Raskin.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/xucia.com\/\">Kris Zyp<\/a> followed with a great talk on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.xucia.com\/files\/Advanced_JSON.ppt\">Advanced JSON<\/a>.  Some of the JSON-RPC stuff he talked about was very similar in concept to the <a href=\"http:\/\/giantrobots.thoughtbot.com\/2007\/4\/2\/jester-javascriptian-rest\">Jester<\/a> stuff covered by Pete and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mill-industries.com\">Eric<\/a> yesterday.  I have to say that Kris strikes me as the one guy who deserves the &#8220;smartest-guy-of-the-conference&#8221; award.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a pic of the Ajax Experience Canadian speaker contingent &#8211; left to right:  Andre Charland and Dave Johnson of Nitobi, and Pete Forde of Unspace.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/boston_nitobi.jpg\" alt=\"Andre Charland, Dave Johnson, Pete Forde\" \/><\/p>\n<p>And here&#8217;s a picture of yours truly, with my new t-shirt from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedreamingmusic.com\/\">The Dreaming<\/a>.  No relation, honest.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/brentashley_dreaming.jpg\" alt=\"Brent Ashley, but not the one in The Dreaming\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ajax Experience 2007 East is done. Another great show with really great content and really engaged attendees. The final day started out with a keynote from Aza Raskin of Humanized fame, who among other things highlighted the Endless Pageless pattern that fellow Canadian Pete Forde talked about in an article last year. I gave my [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ashleyit.com\/blogs\/brentashley\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}