Simon Willison
- Simon Willison
- 1stars
- Score
- 29
- feedback entries
- 2
- Number of contributions
- 3
- Signed up since
- 03 Nov, 07 13:56
- Country
- United States
- About
Simon Willison is a consultant on client- and server-side Web development and a co-creator of the Django Web framework. Simon's interests include OpenID, unobtrusive JavaScript and rapid application development.
Before going frelance Simon worked on Yahoo!'s Technology Development team, and prior to that at the Lawrence Journal-World, an award winning local newspaper in Kansas.
Simon maintains a popular Web development weblog at http://simonwillison.net/
User's feedback entries
-
How to Make AJAX Work For You
Ajax is becoming a part of almost every web application. Users expect this and are increasingly disappointed when page refreshes occur for trivial updates. An Ajax framework can help you create or update your application using the best techniques available.
Simon Willison, co-creator of Django and OpenID advocate, will take you through the scenarios where you'll want to use Ajax. He'll also explore the frameworks you can use to make improving your web app that much easier and faster.
Simon will walk you through Dojo, Prototype/Scriptaculous, jQuery and YUI.
-
Hands-On: How to Make Ajax Work For You
Ajax is becoming a part of almost every web application. Users expect this and are increasingly disappointed when page refreshes occur for trivial updates. An Ajax framework can help you create or update your application.
During this three-hour session Simon Willison, co-creator of Django and OpenID advocate, will take you through the scenarios where you'll want to use Ajax. He'll teach basic the fundamentals of Ajax as well as advanced techniques. Simon will also explore the frameworks such as Dojo, Prototype/Scriptaculous, jQuery and YUI you can use to make improving your web app that much easier and faster. Along the way you'll be writing code to test out the items you're hearing about.
Technology and Design © 2006 DIMELO - Makers of Feedback2.0