So You Want to be a DOM Star
The Ajax Experience
Boston · October 23 - 25, 2006
About this Presentation
What does it take to be a great front-end developer in today?s marketplace? Moreover, what does it take to be a great one? Aaron Gustafson clues you in.
There's a lot going on right now and it's hard to keep up, but this session will give you the knowledge you need to write solid scripts, manage growing libraries, and work with AJAX, all while providing an incredible experience for your users, be they JavaScript-enabled or not.
Starting with the foundations of unobtrusive scripting, we'll tackle how to blueprint and execute your scripts as well as how to leverage available libraries to make your life easier. Though the focus will be DOM Scripting, the concepts discussed will be applicable to languages beyond JavaScript.
Principal - Easy! Designs, LLC
After getting hooked on the web in 1996 and spending several years pushing pixels and bits for the likes of IBM and Konica Minolta, AARON GUSTAFSON founded Easy! Designs, LLC, a boutique web consultancy. Aaron is a member of The Web Standards Project (WaSP), serves as Technical Editor for A List Apart, is a contributing writer for Digital Web Magazine and MSDN, and has amassed a library of writing and editing credits in the print world, including AdvancED DOM Scripting (Friends of Ed, 2007) and Web Design in a Nutshell (3rd Edition, O'Reilly). In addition to
appearing at Rich Web Experience, Aaron is a regular on the web conference circuit and is frequently called upon to provide web standards and JavaScript training in both the public and private sector. He blogs at easy-reader.net.
Photo by Cindy Li.