Steffen Meschkat
The Ajax Experience
Boston · October 23 - 25, 2006
Google Engineer
Steffen Meschkat joined Google in 2004 and currently works on maps. He earlier co-founded ART+COM AG and datango AG. At ART+COM, he worked on industry funded application research projects of Virtual Reality and, since 1993, the WWW. For datango, he built the client side components of the navigation suite, a technology that augments web applications by simulated user interaction fragments. He has an MSc (“Diplom”) in Physics from Humboldt University in Berlin.
Presentations
Client Side Web Services
JSON RPC is a recently fashionable buzzword in the AJAX context. This lecture explains its principles, specifically the same origin policy for cross site scripting and its relation to JSON RPC, and demonstrates the essential implementation details using the example of the geocoding service in the google maps API.