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What's New in Web browsers: Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco 2009 - Co-produced ...

By Molly Holzschlag

Molly will examine what is new in Web browsers, with a focus on practical realities for developers. We'll discuss how developers will need to deal with IE8 modes, and discuss HTML and CSS advances in all major browsers including Firefox, Opera, and Safari.

[Publish Date: March 31, 2009]

Gearing up MySQL: Implementing MySQL synchronization for browser-based apps ...

By Roland Bouman

Gears is a Google OSS project to extend common web browsers (FF, IE, Chrome), providing Ajax webdevs with features such as an embedded SQL database and support for long-running background processes. This talk describes in detail how to create browser-based applications that use this local, embedded relational database, and how to synchronize this local database to a central MySQL server.

[Publish Date: April 20, 2009]

Building Next Generation Web Apps with Rails and SproutCore: RailsConf 2009 ...

By Mike Subelsky

Future web apps will be built on the client-server model: faster, more fluid, desktop-like apps that cannot be fully realized with traditional Rails techniques for building browser views. But Rails is the perfect server framework to integrate with SproutCore, an exciting new framework for building web browser clients. Students will build a full-fledged client-server app using both frameworks.

[Publish Date: May 04, 2009]

Designing RESTful Web Services: Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco 2009 - ...

RESTful web services play well with web servers, browsers, proxies, search engines, and other HTTP agents through the correct use of headers, verbs, response codes, and markup. On the surface, this is straightforward. But sometimes creativity can be required in order to achieve all of our requirements while respecting the principals of REST.

[Publish Date: March 31, 2009]

Speaker: Molly Holzschlag: Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco 2009 - Co-produced by ...

Molly E. Holzschlag is a well-known Web standards advocate, instructor, and author. She has served as Group Lead for the Web Standards Project (WaSP), has been an invited expert to the W3C, consultant to numerous browser vendors and corporate clients, and has written more than 30 books covering client-side development and design for the Web.

[Publish Date: March 31, 2009]

Native CPU Performance in the Browser with Google Native Client: Velocity ...

Close the gap between browser and desktop application performance with native CPU performance for the web. This talk will provide an overview of this Google research technology and demonstrate a few simple applications.

[Publish Date: June 22, 2009]

W3C Geolocation API -- Adding "Where" to Web Applications : Web 2.0 Expo ...

By Ryan Sarver

Location aware websites can provide users with rich social connectivity, useful content, efficient movement around their environment, highly targeted advertising, and more. Building on this session from Web 2.0 Expo last year, we will discuss the new W3C Geolocation API, location-aware browsers and other available tools that can add location to websites and applications.

[Publish Date: March 31, 2009]

The Magic of Web Apps is HTTP, Not the Browser - O'Reilly ONLamp Blog

By chromatic

Eugueny Kontsevoy writes in Web vs Desktop Nonsense: Can we see past the browser? Can we accept that browser is just a runtime library that most people do not need to download to consume your application? ... Come on, the "anywhere" part...

[Publish Date: February 14, 2008]

Speaker: Scott Penberthy: RailsConf 2009 - O'Reilly Conferences, May 04 - ...

Scott is the CIO at Gilt Groupe, an online retailer of luxury goods sold at discount prices to a private, invitation-only membership. All sales occur once a day at noon, providing interesting technology and processes challenges to handle instant, flash floods of transactions. In this role Scott's team is responsible for all things tech, from the web site to handheld scanners in multiple warehouses. Scott has been a builder and leader of technology teams for over 15 years. He started his career as a research scientist at IBM, then led teams that delivered web browsers, web platforms, and open source services during the first web wave. After IBM he left for the venture world, becoming CTO or VPE of early stage startups including Photobucket, Heavy, and Bling. Scott enjoys building tech teams who love what they do.

[Publish Date: May 04, 2009]