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Given the amount of time and resources invested in establishing their web presence, developers may be reluctant to challenge the status quo and take web applications offline. The mounting fear facing developers is that without connectivity, web applications face dangerous propositions including potentially blank screens, lost data, disenchanted users, and decreased traffic.
However, a whole new paradigm for creating rich internet applications (RIAs) that can work offline and on the desktop has emerged. Two speakers, from Adobe and Google, will demonstrate tools to develop the next generation of RIAs that run seamlessly across operating systems—in the browser and on the desktop, both on and offline.
RIA Evangelist for Adobe
Dion Almaer is the co-founder of Ajaxian.com, the leading source of the Ajax community. For his day job, Dion co-leads a new group at Mozilla focusing on developer tools for the Web, which is something he has been passionate about doing for years, and is excited for the opportunity! Dion has been writing rich web applications from the beginning, and has been a columnist on various topics at ONJava, TheServerSide.com, openxource.com and of course his blog at almaer.com/blog.
He enjoys writing, and speaking at events such as JavaOne, Web 2.0 Expo, Future of Web Apps, Google I/O, JavaPolis, TheServerSide Symposium, and created The Ajax Experience. He also participates on the Java Community Process expert groups, and the open source community as a whole.
He enjoys the new Internet media that allows him to connect with the community, and thus created Audible Ajax, recently launched the Open Web Podcast with other industry gurus, and founded the Google Code Review show.
If you want to keep up with him, follow along on Twitter (http://twitter.com/dalmaer), or FriendFeed (http://friendfeed.com/dion).