Ajax Seminar : Part 1
I’m in New York today at the Ajax Seminar being run by Sys-Con. Being a geek, one of the most exciting things about the hotel is the lifts of course - glass tubes facing outwards across a vast atrium that looks like something out of Star Wars. Anyway, I had a good play on them yesterday to get it out of my system, and can settle down now to the talks :)
So far, Jesse James Garrett has given a very polished talk, including an account of the formulation of the name ‘Ajax’. Followed by Christophe Coenrats’ “Extending Ajax with Flex” - 4 slides and heaps of live demos, including adding a video-capture facility to WordPress! Flex has a very nice publish-subscribe mechanism for collaboration features. A lot of it could be accomplished with plain-old-Ajax (yup, all of one year, and it’s old!) using polling, but I wonder how efficient it would be.
Next talks started now…