Boston PHP: AJAX Update October 25, 2006

Without a doubt, the concepts behind AJAX are providing the catalyst to move the web from its old clunky "send it all back the server for an update" into the thick client "desktop" feel the average computer user has come to expect.

Earlier this year we heard from the AJAX community to get a primer and snapshot of where the technology sat (click here for a meeting summary). This time around we're going to listen to two more players in the AJAX space:

* Max Carlson - Co-Founder OpenLaszlo.org

The Road to AJAX - In the past, OpenLaszlo been regarded as a Flash-only tool. In fact, OpenLaszlo is a powerful language for rich, custom declarative user interface programming that's been under development for over 5years. It's a powerful framework, and it has an exciting future as a single (OpenSource) language that can target Flash, DHTML and soon,other runtimes.

In this talk Max will talk about the process of making OpenLaszlo a runtime-independent platform, including the first year of AJAX. He will ive an overview of the current multi-runtime architecture, includingtechniques for using and extending it. See an overview of the language, and talk about the future of OpenLaszlo as an AJAX platform.

* Alex Russell - President of the Dojo Foundation.

Dojo - Dojo is the Open Source Javascript toolkit that makes professional web development better, easier, and faster. This talk will cover some of Dojo's core APIs, including those for Ajax, Drag and Drop, Animations, and AOP-style event handling. Alex might also discuss some of the stock widgets, various ways to take advantage of them, and how you can use Dojo's package system to help make your own code faster and more portable.

Official Website: http://www.bostonphp.org/component/option%2Ccom_gigcal/task%2Cdetails/gigcal_gigs_id%2C21/