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Hinchcliffe's Whirlwind AJAX Round-Up Brings First-Ever "AJAX University Bootcamp" To a Close

From XMLHttpRequest to Dojo Tree Widget in 9 Hours Flat
By Jeremy Geelan
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October 18, 2006 08:30 AM EDT
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Whether anyone arriving at 8:30AM this morning to attend Dion Hinchcliffe's inaugural "AJAX University Bootcamp" at AJAXWorld 2006 realized that just nine hours later they'd potentially be talking intelligently about using geocoding in image tags to build an application "mashup" of the Dojo GoogleMaps Control or YahooMap control to visually display where photos were taken is unknown. But the atmosphere in the Bootcamp all day has been intensely purposive, so it wouldn't at all surprise me!

The AJAX Developer Bootcamp curriculum was carefully designed to be the most efficient way to "fit all of AJAX in your head" using a structured and well-organized approach to learning about this significant new paradigm shift in Web development. Delegates certainly seemed to have staying-power! No one abandoned ship, and indeed there were more than a handful of "walk-ins" - i.e. people who apparently decided to attend the Bootcamp at the very last minute.

Knowledge of and ability to work with HTML and CSS were bootcamp prerequisites, as well as basic JavaScript skills, and as a result attendees gained a deep understanding of the underlying principles of AJAX including DHTML, JavaScript, XMLHttpRequest, how to build AJAX-friendly Web services including JSON, AJAX application structure, and useful tips for debugging, troubleshooting, and tuning AJAX applications.

Hinchcliffe (pictured above next to SYS-CON Media's Jeremy Geelan, AJAXWorld Conference Chair) is Editor-in-Chief of AJAXWorld Magazine , being launched at AJAXWorld 2006 which opens tomorrow.






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About Jeremy Geelan

Jeremy Geelan is Sr. Vice-President of SYS-CON Media & Events. He is Conference Chair of the all-new International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo series, of the International Virtualization Conference & Expo series, of AJAXWorld RIA Conference & Expo series, and of the long-running SOAWorld Conference & Expo series. He's founder of Cloud Computing Journal, Web 2.0 Journal, AJAX & RIA Journal and other leading SYS-CON titles. From 2000-6, as first editorial director and then group publisher of SYS-CON Media, he was responsible for the development of all new titles and i-Technology portals for the firm, and regularly represents SYS-CON at conferences and trade shows, speaking to technology audiences both in North America and overseas. He is executive producer and presenter of "Power Panels with Jeremy Geelan" on SYS-CON.TV.

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