Brent Ashley
The Ajax Experience
Boston · October 23 - 25, 2006
Remote Scripting Expert
Brent Ashley is a consultant and scripting specialist from Toronto who has been building interactive web applications using Remote Scripting and related techniques since 1998. Since that time he has been active promoting various cross-browser web remoting techniques in newsgroups, forums and on his site at http://www.ashleyit.com/rs. His popular iframes-based JSRS Javascript Remote Scripting library appeared in 2000 and the img/cookie based RSLite was released in 2001.
Brent has remained an active participant in the Ajax community. He was the first guest speaker at O'Reilly and Adaptive Path's Ajax Summit in San Francisco in May 2005 and appeared at The Ajax Experience in May 2006 with his presentation on Ajax Transport Layer Alternatives
Presentations
Ajax Transport Layer Alternatives
Brent Ashley explores the available alternatives to the XMLHttp object for background retrieval of data from the server, including the latest advances and proposals. Pros and cons of each technique are discussed with code examples and a simple multi-transport demo application.