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Dion Almaer

Dion Almaer
Director, Developer Relations, Palm

Web site | @dalmaer

Dion Almaer is the co-founder of Ajaxian.com, the leading source of the Ajax community. Dion is part of the Google Developer Programs group, which enables him to work with developer facing technology. Dion has been writing rich web applications from the beginning, and is a columnist on Enterprise Java topics at openxource.com, onjava.com, TheServerSide.com, and of course his blog at almaer.com/blog. He enjoys writing, and speaking at events such as JavaOne, JavaPolis, TheServerSide Symposium, and the No Fluff Just Stuff symposium tour. He also participates on the Java Community Process expert groups, and the open source community as a whole.

Sessions

11:00am Friday, 09/19/2008
The Future of Browsers
Topic: Development
Location: 1A08 & 10
Dion Almaer (Palm), Ben Galbraith (Mozilla), Chris Wilson (Microsoft Corp.), Brendan Eich (Mozilla)
We explore the future of browsers and where the Web is going in this panel. What do they see as the important blockers? How can we get past them? How can we stop JavaScript 2 from becoming the Web's Perl 6? Read more.
12:05pm Friday, 09/19/2008
State of Web Development
Topic: Development
Location: 1A08 & 10
Dion Almaer (Palm), Ben Galbraith (Mozilla)
In this talk, Dion and Ben discuss the latest developments, including multithreaded JavaScript technology-powered UIs, robust offline storage, choosing the right Ajax/JavaScript technology framework, Ajax outside of the browser, and more. Read more.