Dion Almaer, Ajaxian.com

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 createdThe 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, or FriendFeed.

Presentation: "Developer Tools for the Open Web"

Track: Interviews (3)

Time: Friday 15:45 - 16:45

Location: University

Abstract: TBA

Presentation: "Panel: The state and future of the Open Web"

Time: Friday 17:00 - 18:00

Location: To be announced

Abstract:

We are in exciting times for the Web. The browsers are innovating in real time. As Web developers we had years of no change to the platform which lead us to the server side. Now we have rich graphics, fast JavaScript, location APIs, CSS enhancements, offline support, a major update to HTML, all on the way.

Come join this panel of Web experts to discuss what is happening to your platform, the first dominant ecosystem not controlled by a single vendor. What compelling applications can you build with this new functionality? What problems still need fixing? Have your say!