Dan Webb
The Ajax Experience
Boston · October 23 - 25, 2006
Vivabit Developer and Co-author of the Unobtrusive JavaScript Plugin For Rails
Dan Webb is a Web Application Developer working for Vivabit for which he is developing Eventwax, an RoR based event management system. More recently he has co-authored the Unobtrusive JavaScript Plugin For Rails and the Low Pro extention to Prototype.
He's also a renowned JavaScript expert who spoken at @media 2006, written for A List Apart, HTMLDog and Sitepoint and is a member of, UK web design group, the Brit Pack. He blogs regularly about Ruby, Rails and JavaScript at Vivabit's blog, The Web's Bollocks.
Presentations
Unobtrusive Ajax with Rails
Learn how you can make your Ajax applications accessible to all by bringing unobtrusive DOM Scripting techniques to Rails. This presentation will introduce the concepts of progressive enhancement and graceful degradation and then go on to show how Rails can help you create applications with these techniques using a selection of available tools, techniques and plugins as well as real world examples from large applications.