Mike Wilcox
The Rich Web Experience
Orlando · December 1 - 4, 2009
Software Engineer at SitePen Inc.
Mike Wilcox is a software engineer for of one of the top AJAX companies in the United States, SitePen Inc., which is comprised of the original contributors of the Dojo Toolkit and other open source technologies. As co-founder of the JavaScript user group in Dallas, Club AJAX, Mike is a regular speaker with presentations that include “The JavaScript Programming Primer” and “'That's not Flash?' Native Browser Vector Graphics”.
Mike is a key developer for the new Deft project in Dojo that implements most of the Flash-based components used in DojoX, like the File Uploader and the Video and Audio controls. He is also a primary contributor of the Dojo extensions for Adobe AIR. His latest project is a vector-based drawing library, which he hopes can be used to push the boundaries of browser user interfaces.
For more information, read Mike's blog at http://www.sitepen.com/blog/author/mwilcox/ and visit http://clubajax.org/
Presentations
The Firebug Smackdown
Presented by Mike Wilcox and Bob Byron
Even the newest browsers can create a hostile environment for developers. Today's AJAX applications create dynamic HTML you won't see with View Source. CSS is harder than it looks. XmlHttpRequests are happening in the background.
Firebug is currently the developer's choice for debugging web sites and today's more powerful web applications. It goes much deeper than logging your messages and avoiding the use of alert(). In the Firebug Smackdown you have a ring side seat to witness a series of lightning rounds where Mike Wilcox and Bob Byron go head to head taking turns battling each other with their large repertoire of debugging and development, covering all sections of Firebug: Console, HTML, CSS, Script, DOM, Net, and more!
TARGET AUDIENCE - Web Developers of all skill levels
Stocker - Advanced Dojo Made Easy
Presented by Mike Wilcox and Bob Byron
Today's users are demanding that your website be more interactive than ever, and deliver fresh information instantly in different formats. Enter Stocker — a SitePen demo application with a dual display of faux stock information continuously streamed from the server. It uses the most advanced and complex components in Dojo which have been abstracted with simple APIs that allows them to be plugged into your application quickly and easily. Install the Persevere server and write server-side JavaScript that you can connect to with CometD, all in just minutes. Use the extremely popular DojoX Grid and vector graphics Charts that integrate seamlessly with Dojo Data. Then wrap it all up in a complex layout entirely handled by Dijit!
TARGET AUDIENCE - Web Developers of all levels, management interested in learning new technologies or a potential Dojo integration.
Object Inheritance and other Diabolical JavaScript
Presented by Mike Wilcox and Bob Byron
Warning: JavaScript Warriors only; leave that spaghetti code at home! The truly adventurous will learn how to apply the arguments from your sub class to your base class constructor. We'll explore prototypal inheritance techniques and the syntactic sugar to make it easy. Then we'll create a sleek and sexy class constructor that creates powerful and extensible classes, allowing for code reuse and increased productivity.
TARGET AUDIENCE - Medium to Advanced JavaScript Developers
That's Not Flash? Native Browser Vector Graphics
Browsers can move images around on the screen, but they can't draw without Flash or one of those other plugins, right? Today's browsers — Firefox, Safari, Chrome, and yes, even Internet Explorer — all have Vector Graphics implementations. But Is SVG really possible in Internet Explorer? What are the benefits of SVG over Flash? And what the heck is a vector graphic anyway?
See liquid layouts never before possible in a web browser that are fully interactive, squash and stretch, and have physical properties — all without Flash Player or any other plugin. Vector graphic markup is a simple, familiar language, and the DojoX GFX package creates a cross-browser abstraction which allows for advanced techniques and dazzling effects.
TARGET AUDIENCE - Web Developers of all levels, management interested in learning new technologies