Leveraging AJAX for Enterprise Application Development
The Ajax Experience
Boston · October 23 - 25, 2006
About this Presentation
Despite the fact that AJAX is making significant inroads within the Web 2.0 community, many enterprise applications still remain either traditional web or desktop applications. However, by effectively using AJAX, enterprises can develop compelling, innovative, and useful web based applications that increase employee productivity while retaining the manageability enjoyed by traditional web applications. This session will focus on the challenges of developing enterprise AJAX applications with an emphasis on overcoming the common hurdles and problems encountered along the way.
What attendees will learn: How AJAX will impact the future of enterprise development; how AJAX may be leveraged to create compelling enterprise applications; how to develop an AJAX based enterprise application; real world tips and tricks on such topics as: compression, toolkits, browser quirks, developing large AJAX applications, debugging, and JavaScript and HTML optimization.

Software Architect with Zimbra
Conrad has been a primary developer of the Zimbra web client since its early days. Prior to Zimbra, he designed and developed Java mail APIs for Openwave's messaging products. He landed at Openwave Systems as part of its acquisition of Onebox in 2000, where he had worked on a PHP-based messaging client. Before that, he developed campus-public web services at Stanford University, starting in 1994