Archive for November, 2007
The Nitobi Interview Process… 
November 19th, 2007
Goes a little something like this.
Well kinda. Our super duper intern Andrew Lunny put this together as a side project for UBC’s Comp Sci program.
How to get a job in Computer Science - shot in Vancouver, November 2007. Everything done by Andrew Lunny and Eugene Katsov, Team Discovery Channel, except the bits we didn’t do.
It was fun to be part of it. Hopefully we can do more of these fun little side projects as a team, it was a blast!
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links for 2007-11-14
November 13th, 2007
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This is a completely informal hang out for developers interested in client side technologies but don’t want to ever hear wtf Ajax stands for ever again.
Come, have a beer and relive the days of DHTML, mock Silverlight, mess around with Adobe Air or just
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The Vancouver Ajax and Beer Meet
November 13th, 2007
Come chat about Ajax and drink beer. I’ll be there. Please RSVP at Upcoming.org:
Tuesday, December 11, 2007 7:00 PM
Shebeen Room
9 Gaoler’s Mews
Vancouver, British Columbia (Yahoo! Maps, Google Maps)
Description Skip the presentation and head straight to the bar.
This is a completely informal hang out for developers interested in client side technologies but don’t want to ever hear wtf Ajax stands for ever again.
Come, have a beer and relive the days of DHTML, mock Silverlight, mess around with Adobe Air or just get shit faced. Bring your laptop if you’re up for it, we will be hacking, but you should feel no obligation to. Ad Hoc presentations are cool as long as they are not product pitches.
This event is kindly sponsored by the good people at Nitobi.
Looking forward to learning about cool stuff our local friends are up to! Thanks to Brian Leroux for spearheading this!
Technorati Tags: ajax, group, event, nitobi, vancouver, discussion, ria, development
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Ajax Risks on ComputerWorld
November 2nd, 2007
Although we’re all building Ajax applications, tools and framework at break neck speeds it’s probably wise to pause once in a while to consider the potential risks. As with any technology there is good and bad. You don’t want to take a wrong turn that could jeopardize your software development project or even your business. For a sober look at the risks associate with Ajax projects check out Alexei White’s article “Are you ready for AJAX risks?” on Computer World.
The 3 main areas of risk are:
Technical — These are issues that directly relate to the design, development and maintenance of software, including security, browser capabilities, timeline, cost of development and hardware, skills of the developers, and other things of that nature.
Cultural/political – These are fuzzy issues that focus around the experience of end users, their attitudes and expectations, and how all this relates to software.
Marketing — These are issues that relate to successful execution of the business model resulting in sales, donations, brand recognition, new account registrations, and so on.
This article is republished from our book Enterprise Ajax. We finished writing the manuscript for the book and therefore this article almost a year ago and some stuff has changed. For example we now know what Safari 3.0 looks like under the hood. However, much of this article will apply to more than Ajax projects, so it’s worth a read.
One big risk that I think is more relevant now than ever is whether or not Ajax is the best or only technology you should be using to achieve a rich user experience online. Food for thought:)
Technorati Tags: ajax, risks, development, technology, challenges, enterpriseajax, book, computerworld, seo, marketing
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