AJAX has forever altered user expectations regarding the experience delivered by the Web. In today's world, users sit at the edge of their seat waiting to see what scrumptious eye candy AJAX will serve them next. Some of the more notable visual effects and desktop-like interactions include Prototype-esque fades, Dojo style fisheyes, the near ubiquitous drag-and-drop, and, of course, who can live without the entertainment provided by the assortment of animated loading icons that now distract us while AJAX does its asynchronous 'thing.' Yes, it would appear that AJAX can do it all and that no desktop visual effect or gesture is safe from being outsourced to the Web.

Dojo Toolkit Co-Creator Dylan Schiemann, Laszlo Systems Co-Founder & Chief Interface Architect Bret Simister, Alacrity Ventures Founder Christopher Allen, UI Architect Joe Johnson, Laszlo Sr. Software Engineer Ben Shine, Vodafone Senior Technology Strategist Daniel Appelquist, Next-Gen Web Solutions specialist Matthew David, and more. These are the high-caliber speakers lined up by SYS-CON Events to speak in the iPhone Applications track at AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2007 West taking place next month at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA - one of just ten simultaneous content-rich tracks at biggest version yet of the world?s leading AJAX, Rich Internet Applications & Web 2.0 event.

SYS-CON.TV panel discussion during the "RIA Shootout" compared Adobe's Flex, Microsoft's Silverlight, and Sun Microsystems' JavaFX technologies and hosted renowned i-technology industry commentators and SYS-CON bloggers such as Coach Wei, Kevin Hoffman, Debbie Moynihan, Mike Potter, and Yakov Fain, with moderator, SYS-CON publisher Roger Strukhoff.

Panelists included SOA World Magazine editor-in-chief Sean Rhody (CSC), Open Source Specialist and SYS-CON's Industry Blogger Debbie Moynihan (IONA), Nexaweb's founder and CTO and SYS-CON's Industry Blogger Coach Wei, ColdFusion Developer's Journal editor-in-chief Simon Horwith (AboutWeb), and SOA World Conference & Expo 2007 East speaker Jason Bloomberg (ZapThink). The panel was moderated by SYS-CON.TV founder and host Roger Strukhoff.

SYS-CON Events announced that 'AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2007 West' sponsorship opportunities are now sold-out! Limited number of expo and event sponsorship opportunities that are still available are expected to be completely sold. The new sponsors who joined the conference this week, and are not yet listed on the conference Website, will also be announced this week.

Oracle's Ric Smith, ILOG's Patrick Ruzand, Sun's Roberto Chinnici, IBM's Leugim Bustelo & Phil Berkland, Ken Gardner from SOASTA, Joshua Gertzen from ThinWire, Erick Audet from TechSolCom and Jean-Francois Arcand & Francois Orsini from Sun. These are among the more than a dozen high-caliber speakers lined up by SYS-CON Events to speak in the 'RIAs Frameworks & Toolkits' track at AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2007 West taking place September 24-26 at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA - one of just ten simultaneous content-rich tracks at biggest version yet of the world's leading AJAX, Rich Internet Applications & Web 2.0 event.

JackBe CTO John Crupi, IBM CTO for Emerging Internet Technologies David Boloker, Kapow Technologies Founder & CTO Stefan Andreasen, ITerating Executive Nicolas Vandenberghe, Roundarch RIA Practice Leader Charles Fiesel, Rubicon Consulting Founder Nilofer Merchant, Symantec Developer Rowan Trollope, and more. These are among the more than a dozen high-caliber speakers lined up by SYS-CON Events to speak in the Web 2.0 / Enterprise Mashups track at AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2007 West taking place next month at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA - one of just ten simultaneous content-rich tracks at biggest version yet of the world's leading AJAX, Rich Internet Applications & Web 2.0 event.

Engineering Manager of Yahoo! Teachers Bill Scott, PHP Collaboration Project Leader Andi Gutmans, ICEsoft CTO Stephen Maryka, OpenAjax Alliance Leader & AJAXWorld Tech Chair Jon Ferraiolo, TIBCO GI Director of Evangelism Kevin Hakman, Zend Technologies Evangelist Bradford Cottel, Vertex Logic Founder & President Anil Sharma, effectiveUI Solutions Architect Rob Rusher, Optaros Next Generation Internet Practice Leader John Eckman, Java trainer and developer James Harmon, and more. These are among the more than a dozen high-caliber speakers lined up by SYS-CON Events to speak in the 'RIAs in Action' track at AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2007 West taking place next month at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA - one of just ten simultaneous content-rich tracks at biggest version yet of the world's leading AJAX, Rich Internet Applications & Web 2.0 event.

SYS-CON Events announced the first ever 'AJAXWorld Poker Tournament' - Powered by Kaazing - making AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2007 West in Santa Clara in September the world's first AJAX conference to offer its delegates the chance to play for great prizes in a real-time poker tournament: using a state-of-the-art AJAX-powered solution with no downloads and no browser plug-ins required.

It's a great time to be an AJAX or Rich Internet Application developer. Backbase, which is growing quickly, is constantly on the lookout for talented people to join its team. At AJAXWorld 2007 East in March of this year, the company was looking for Senior AJAX Consultants in San Mateo and Amsterdam to deliver its consulting and training services. The same is true of many of the other sponsors and exhibitors at the upcoming AJAXWorld 2007 West, many of whom are looking to hire rich internet applications and AJAX developers.

The Java development platform always provides limited support for application development based on a graphical user interface, an area where more traditional languages and integrated development environments (IDEs) such as Visual Basic or Delphi have based their success.

'The new Flex SDK was requested by several of our customers, to leverage Lightstreamer Server for both AJAX and Flash/Flex applications, and we are now glad to publicly release it,' said Alessandro Alinone, CTO of Lightstreamer, as the comapny released today a new client SDK for Adobe Flex.

You've just finished writing your Ruby on Rails application, your test suite tests your models and controllers in depth, but you still can't tell from your tests if your RJS responses are functioning properly, or if a Javascript error is happening in the browser, which means that your tests can still be improved. In this talk, the speaker will outline some options you have for testing your AJAX-powered Ruby on Rails application from both the client and server sides. The speaker will show examples illustrating how to test your RJS calls from the server-side with the use of some Rails plugins, and how to test the same calls in the client-side using with Selenium, a tool that allows you to write automated web application UI tests using any mainstream JavaScript-enabled browser.