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Mar 31 Wed 6:00-9:00pm
The Chronicles of Web Standard III: The Voyage of the HTML5
Registration URL: http://voyageofhtml5.eventbrite.com/

Past Series
The Chronicles of Web Standard I: The HTML5, the Comet and the WebSocket
The Chronicles of Web Standard II: Prince Comet

Date: 3/31/2010 Wed
Time: 6:00pm-9:00pm
Location: Google Campus
Address: Building 43 Tunis Tech Talk, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View CA 94043
Food & Drink: Sponsored by Google

Discussion Panel
Moderator:
Kevin Nilson, Principal Software Architect
Speakers:
Brad Neuberg, Developer at Google
Ben Galbraith, Co-founder at Ajaxian.com
Michael Carter, Founder of Orbited

Ben Galbraith
Co-founder at Ajaxian.com
Ben Galbraith is the co-director of Developer Tools at Mozilla and the co-founder of Ajaxian.com. Ben has long juggled interests in both business and tech, having written his first computer program at six years old, started his first business at ten, and entered the IT workforce at twelve.
He has delivered hundreds of technical presentations world-wide, produced several technical conferences, and co-authored over a half-dozen books. He has enjoyed a variety of business and technical roles throughout his career, including CEO, CIO, CTO, and Chief Software Architect roles in medical, publishing, media, manufacturing, advertising, and software industries. He lives in Palo Alto with his wife and five children.

Michael Carter
Founder of Orbited
Michael has always been driven to understand what makes scalable systems tick, particularly real-time, browser-facing systems. He is especially focused on standardizing a protocol for Comet (HTTP Push) to ensure that all developers can benefit from his research on Comet and real-time Web infrastructures.
Michael spends his time consulting, js.io, csp, and organizing Silicon Valley-based JavaScript interests groups (http://javascript.meetup.com/9/ & http://www.meetup.com/bayjax/ )

Beginning in 2006, Michael founded and led the development of Orbited, the Open Source Comet daemon, for two years. In his work with Orbited he has made significant advances not only in backporting future standards to today's browsers, but also in experimenting with various server architectures for real-time applications. Much of his involvement with the project has centered on creating scalable Comet technology and providing solid integration points with today's synchronous, request/response-based technologies.
Michael frequently speaks at conferences, participates in drafting standards, and interacts closely with Open Source communities. His recent speaking engagements include OSCON, Pycon, and AjaxExperience. Michael is also an active CometDaily blogger where he has written several articles on topics related to scaling Comet and Web frameworks.

Chet Haase (TBD)
Computer Scientist at Adobe
Chet Haase is a senior computer scientist on the Flex SDK team at Adobe, focusing on graphics issues and features. In a former life, he worked for Sun Microsystems as a client architect in the Desktop Java group, working with client technologies such as Java 2D, Swing, AWT, and deployment. He is coauthor with Romain Guy of the book Filthy Rich Clients: Developing Animated and Graphical Effects for Desktop Java Applications. He and Guy are presenting a session on filthy rich clients, beyond Java.

Brad Neuberg, Developer at Google
(Coming...)

Kevin Nilson
Principal Software Architect
Kevin Nilson is currently a Principal Software Architect for a Large Financial Firm in Silicon Valley. He is the co-lead of the Silicon Valley Web Developer JUG. He is also the co-lead of the Silicon Valley Google Technology User Group and Assistant Organizer of the Silicon Valley JavaScript Meetup. Prior to his current work, Kevin had extensive industry software engineering and consulting experience with companies such as: Pfizer, Northrop Grumman, and AT&T Corporation. He also worked part-time as an adjunct professor at the College of San Mateo. He is also a core contributer for confetto.org, a web based real-time open source conference collaboration tool used at conferences such as: Silicon Valley Code Camp and Devoxx. He is a Sun Certified Java Programmer and Sun Certified Web Component Developer.

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2/24/10 60 Million Social Network

websig — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 07:58:35 CST

Feb 24 Wed 6:00-9:30pm
60 Million Social Network
Registration URL: http://60millionsocialnetwork.eventbrite.com/

Date: 2/24/2010 Wed
Time: 6:00pm-9:30pm
Location: Hurricane Electric
Address: 48233 Warm Spring Blvd, Fremont California 94539
Food & Drink: Sponsored by Hurricane Electric

Speakers:
7:00-8:15pm
Paul Lindner & Taylor Singletary from Linkedin Platform team
8:15pm-9:00pm
Estelle Weyl, CSS3 in Webkit browser and iPhone

Paul Lindner is the Leader & Architect at Linkedin. He was a Engineering Manager of hi5's OpenSocial-based platform and an active contributor to the Apache Shindig projec, OpenSocial, and the Gadgets specification. Over the last 20 years Paul has led efforts and created systems that make the Internet a better place. His past successes include building and promoting the Internet Gopher in the early 90s, creating Internet systems for the ITU and Red Hat, co-authoring the 'mod_perl Developer's Cookbook' and scaling Six Apart's TypePad to support millions and millions of people.

Taylor Singletary is a Technical Evangelist at LinkedIn. After being part of the Light Engineering team bringing you LinkedIn Mobile, he now find his way as LinkedIn's Technical Evangelist-- helping to spread and integrate our fantastic APIs and our OpenSocial implementation.

Estelle Weyl is a Senior Web Developer and active speaker at design and developer events and conferences. She has been coding CSS, XHTML, JavaScript and PHP since 1999, tableless CSS since 2003. She is currently working on entries regarding: favicons, microformats, image effects using CSS, eventlisteners/eventhandlers and cross browser AJAX using YUI and a php proxy. Her work involved in Engage, Yahoo!Mobile, International Yahoo! Mobile Website.

1/2/10 Chuckmeout MySpace

websig — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 07:58:15 CST

Jan 27 Wed 6:00-9:30pm
ChuckMeOut Code Lab: MySpace Developer Challenge
Registration URL: http://myspacedeveloperchallenge.eventbrite.com/

Jan 27 Wed 6:00pm-9:30pm
ChuckMeOut Code Lab: MySpace Developer Challenge

Date: 1/27/2010 Wed
Time: 6:00pm-9:30pm
Location: Hurricane Electric
Address: 48233 Warm Spring Blvd, Fremont California 94539
Food & Drink: Sponsored by Hurricane Electric

Speaker:
Chris Cole, MySpace Developer Platform Lead & Book Author of "Building OpenSocial Apps: A Field Guide to Working with the MySpace Platform"

Chris Cole, Software Architect at MySpace Chris has worked primarily in the web space on both Enterprise and large-scale public Internet applications for the last 15 years. He specializes primarily in C#/Asp.Net and JavaScript development, but has worked with a wide variety of development environments, including PHP, Ruby, and Java.

Currently Chris is working as a Software Architect with the MySpace Open Platform and is developing the Template and Expression Language processing engine for the next generation development platform. Chris is a core contributor to the OpenSocial 0.9 and 1.0 specifications.

Help: Haiti Crisis Camp SV Followup http://crisiscamphaitisiliconvalley.eventbrite.com/ If you would like to help Haiti or next crisis, please come and join us. We'll be sharing technical challenges that you could help.

Bring your laptop and work on your app

How to get started in MySpace Platform
MySpace Developer Challenge
Real-Time Stream API
Open Search API
Photo Upload API
MySpace iPhone SDK
Open Social v0.7 => v0.8 => v0.9 => v1.0

Agenda:
6:00 pm Networking & Food / Drink
7:00 pm MySpace Platform API & MySpace Developer Challenge
8:00 pm Code Clinic & Hacking

10/21/09 The Chronicles of Web Standard Prince Comet

websig — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 05:44:56 CST

Oct 21 Wed 6:00-9:00pm
The Chronicles of Web Standard - Prince Comet: Next Wave of Comet
Registration URL: http://princecomet.eventbrite.com/

Date/Time: 10/21/2008 Wed 6:00-9:00pm
Event: The Chronicles of Web Standard - Prince Comet: Next Wave of Comet
Moderator & Presenter: Kevin Nilson, Principal Software Architect at Large Financial
Speakers:
Alex Russell, President of the Dojo Foundation & Project Lead for The Dojo Toolkit
Michael Carter, Founder at Orbited Project & Official Contributor for W3C HTML5
Ted Goddard,Senior Software Architect at ICEsoft Technologies and ICEfaces.org
Greg Wilkins, Lead Developer of the Jetty
Dylan Schiemann, co-founder of Dojo Toolkit and CEO of SitePen
Location: Google, Mountain View Campus
Address: Tunis Tech Talk RoomBuilding 43, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway,Mountain View, CA 94043
Registration URL: http://princecomet.eventbrite.com/

Agenda

6:00 - 7:00 Networking

7:00 - 7:20 Comet Introduction by Kevin Nilson
7:20 - 7:30 Break
7:30 - 8:30 Panel Discussion (Full Panel, moderated by Kevin Nilson)
8:30 - 8:45 Q/A
8:45 - 9:00 Raffle & Network

10/21/2009
The Chronicles of Web Standard
Prince Comet: Next Wave of Comet

Sponsored: Google

Date/Time: 10/21/2008 Wed 6:00-9:00pm
Event: The Chronicles of Web Standard - Prince Comet: Next Wave of Comet
Moderator & Presenter: Kevin Nilson, Principal Software Architect at Large Financial
Speakers:
Alex Rusell, President of the Dojo Foundation & Project Lead for The Dojo Toolkit
Michael Carter, Founder at Orbited Project & Official Contributor for W3C HTML5
Ted Goddard,Senior Software Architect at ICEsoft Technologies and ICEfaces.org
Greg Wilkins, Lead Developer of the Jetty
Dylan Schiemann, co-founder of Dojo Toolkit and CEO of SitePen
Location: Google, Mountain View Campus
Address: Tunis Tech Talk RoomBuilding 43, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway,Mountain View, CA 94043
Registration URL: http://princecomet.eventbrite.com/

Agenda

6:00 - 7:00 Networking

7:00 - 7:20 Comet Introduction by Kevin Nilson
7:20 - 7:30 Break
7:30 - 8:30 Panel Discussion (Full Panel, moderated by Kevin Nilson)
8:30 - 8:45 Q/A
8:45 - 9:00 Raffle & Network

Event Summary
The Chronicles of Web Standard - Prince Comet: The Return of HTML 5 will be an exciting event covering Comet (aka Reverse AJAX), HTML 5, the latest, and future enhancements to the web. This event will start with a general introduction to Comet, followed by an in depth panel discussion moderated by Kevin Nilson with panelist: Alex Rusell, Michael Carter, Ted Goddard, Greg Wilkins, Dylan Schiemann

What is Comet
AJAX became popular because it allows a browser to request additional information from the server. One major limitation of AJAX is that the browser must initiate the request for data from the server. Comet solves this problem by allowing the server to push data to the browser at any time.

What is WebSocket
The HTML5 WebSocket standard defines the future of networking for browser applications, delivering full-duplex, bidirectional text-based communication between browsers and WebSocket servers. The WebSocket connection handshake leverages the HTTP standard to integrate with existing Web infrastructure, such as proxies, firewalls and load balancers, and then upgrades the wire protocol to remove the limitations of the HTTP request-response communication model. With WebSockets, browsers will be able to participate as first-class citizens in networked applications that are typically reserved for desktop clients, such as XMPP (Jabber) chat applications, as well as online gaming and financial trading applications.

Alex Russell
Google Engineer

Alex Russell served as Project Lead for the Dojo Toolkit from 2004 to 2008 and is Director of R&D at SitePen, a consultancy focused on the development of web applications, exceptional user experience, and pushing the limits of the web. Currently, he is working at Google. Previously he served as President of the Dojo Foundation, an organization that supports development of several high-quality, open source, JavaScript projects and distributes them under liberal terms. Prior to joining SitePen, Russell was a senior engineer at JotSpot and Informatica where he helped both companies build highly interactive, web interfaces. His earlier, open source involvement included stints as editor of the OWASP Guide to Building Secure Web Applications and primary author of the netWindows DHTML toolkit.

Michale Carter

Founder at Orbited Project & Official Contributor for W3C HTML5

Kevin Nilson
Principal Software Architect at Large Financial

Kevin Nilson is currently a Principal Software Architect for a Large Financial Firm in Silicon Valley. He is the co-lead of the Silicon Valley Web Developer JUG. He is also the co-lead of the Silicon Valley Google Technology User Group and Assistant Organizer of the Silicon Valley JavaScript Meetup. Prior to his current work, Kevin had extensive industry software engineering and consulting experience with companies such as: Pfizer, Northrop Grumman, and AT&T Corporation. He also worked part-time as an adjunct professor at the College of San Mateo. He is also a core contributer for confetto.org, a web based real-time open source conference collaboration tool used at conferences such as: Silicon Valley Code Camp and Devoxx. He is a Sun Certified Java Programmer and Sun Certified Web Component Developer.
You can learn more about Kevin on his website JavaClimber.com <http://www.javaclimber.com/>.

Ted Goddard
Senior Software Architect atICEsoft Technologies and ICEfaces.org

Ted Goddard received his PhD in mathematics in 1996, answering open problems in complexity theory and infinite colorings for ordered sets, and proceeded with post-doctoral research in component and Web-based collaborative technologies. Following work at Java Software, Sun Microsystems, he was a device management and XML architect at Wind River, participating in the IETF NETCONF design team. Ted currently participates in the JavaServer Faces and Servlet expert groups and is a senior software architect at ICEsoft Technologies developing ICEfaces, an Ajax framework for JavaServer Faces.

Dylan Schiemann
co-founder of Dojo Toolkit and CEO of SitePen

As CEO of SitePen and co-founder of the Dojo Toolkit, Dylan is best known for building web applications that make use of JavaScript/Ajax, Dojo, and other standard web development technologies. He has helped develop web apps for companies including Renkoo, Informatica, Security FrameWorks, and Vizional Technologies.

Greg Wilkins
Lead developer of the Jetty open source servlet server

Greg is the lead developer of the Jetty open source servlet server and a member of the experts group for the servlet specification from the Java Community Process. Greg has contributed to Geronimo, JBoss, activemq, DWR and other open source projects. Born in Sydney in 1964, Greg graduated from Sydney University with an honours degree in Computer Science in 1986. Since then he has worked as developer, designer, team leader and architect on varied problem domains including telecoms and WWW. Greg is the founder of Mort Bay Consulting and the CEO of Webtide.

Book Author Appearances
Alex Russell
Mastering Dojo, 1st Edition
Author: Rawld Gill, Craig Riecke, Alex Russell
Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf (June 2008)
http://pragprog.com/titles/rgdojo/mastering-dojo
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781934356111/index.html

Ted Goddard
Ajax in Practice
Author: Dave Crane, Jord Sonneveld and Bear Bibeault with Ted Goddard,
Chris Gray, Ram Venkataraman and Joe Walker
Publisher: Manning (June 2007)
http://www.manning.com/crane2/

Last Year Discussion
Discussion Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coZ-jVLsmVA

Workshop Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJpg20uoQ40

9/30/09 Alice in Wonderland: Game Strategy, Development & Design for iPhone & mobile app

websig — Sat, 13 Feb 2010 05:40:50 CST

Date: 9/30/2009 Wed
Time: 6:00pm-9:30pm
Event: Alice in Wonderland: Game Strategy, Development & Design for iPhone & mobile app

Moderator:
Joseph Barghouthi, Founder at Apptastic Apps
Panelists:
Ben Lewis, Founder at TapJoy
Charles Ju, Playmesh, Game Producer at PlayMesh
Andrew Podolsky, Editor-In-Chief at Slidetoplay.com
Travis Hopkins, Founder at Team4000 Software
Parminder Sangha, iPhone Developer at Redbot Software
Location: Hurricane Electric
Address: 48233 Warm Spring Blvd, Fremont California 94539
Food & Drink: Sponsored by Hurricane Electric

Agenda:
6:00 pm Networking & Food / Drink
7:00 pm Panel
8:30 pm Raffle

Discussion:

1) Starting from scratch (the right idea, the right genre)
a) What are the current gaming trends in the appstore?
b) What unique features do succesful games in the appstore have?
c) Designing a game (Spec Sheets, Outsourcing, Game Engine Choices, Planning for the future)
d) Getting your game approved. (What to watch out for)

2)Marketing Strategies
a) When to begin marketing
b) Best ROI (marketing/advertising budget)
c) Pricing Strategies
d) Lite version strategies and its affects on sales
d) Guerrilla Marketing
e) Cross Promoting

3)Exposure using Apple
a) Game Category Rankings
b) New Release Section (utilizing updates)
c) In app purchase strategies
d) Being featured by apple (structure and common traits)

Moderator:
Joseph Barghouthi
Founder at Apptastic Apps

Joseph Barghouthi is the founder of Apptastic Apps. Their debut release, Mummy's Revenge, is an action packed side-scrolling arcade game which has been featured by Apple in the "What We're Playing" section of the iTunes Appstore. Joseph has extensive experience in marketing and business development. This experience has led to the success of Mummy's Revenge remaining in the Top 100 of it's respective categories since it's initial release in June 2009.

Panelists:
Charles Ju, Playmesh
Game Producer at PlayMesh

Founded in July 2008, PlayMesh is the leader in social gaming on the iPhone and a premiere game producer that has had over 8 titles break into the top 25 applications on the iPhone. PlayMesh is focusing on bringing the power social games onto the iPhone.

PlayMesh has been featured in Venture Beat, Gizmodo, Destructoid, Inside Social Game, Virtual Goods News, Inside Mobile, App Craver, and more. The most notable game produced by PlayMesh is iMafia, a fully-graphically enabled massively multiplayer roleplaying game. iMafia was #7 game on the iPhone and the #1 roleplaying game.

Andrew Podolsky
Editor-In-Chief at Slidetoplay.com

Andrew Podolsky is the Editor in Chief of Slide to Play, one of the largest iPhone game review sites on the web. Andrew started in game journalism by previewing console games as a freelancer for 1up.com, before becoming 1up's Mobile Editor in 2007. He has also worked as the Managing Editor for Ripten.com. As the Editor in Chief of Slide to Play, Andrew oversees a staff of review, preview, and news writers. He also manages the production of hands-on videos, coordinates giveaway contests for readers, hosts a weekly podcast, and comissions special features such as the Slide to Play Buyer's Guide.

Travis Hopkins
Founder at Team4000 Software

Travis Hopkins is the founder of Team4000 Software. Their debut release, RoboFighters, is a fast paced Multiplayer 3d Action game that's been featured twice by Apple as "What Hot" alongside Doom. Travis is always looking for ways to take a platform to the next level. His experience prior to Team4000 includes many years of development on the award winning EA Sports Madden and NCAA Football game Franchises.

Parminder Sangha
iPhone Developer at Redbot Software

Parminder Sangha (Redbot Software) Independent Developer, has extensive experience in management, having owned and managed a retail cellular store for over eight years. He also has experience worked in design and marketing at Harte-Hanks Inc., a leading direct marketing services company. Mr. Sangha holds a degree in 3D Modeling & Animation from the Academy of Art University, San Francisco. (Redbot Software has had success with several games, both paid and free, in the top 100 list of their respective categories in the iTunes App Store.)

6/24/09 American Pie Apple iPhone App Store

websig — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 01:51:11 CDT

Jun 24 Wed
American Pie - Apple iPhone App Store
Registration: http://americanpieapplestore.eventbrite.com/

Joint Meeting with CSPA
Chinese Software Professional Association (CSPA)

PLUS Game Design SIG

Date: Jun 24, 2009 Wed
Time: 7:00pm-9:00pm
Location: Hurricane Electric
Address: 48233 Warm Spring Blvd, Fremont California 94539
Food & Drink: Sponsored by Hurricane Electric
Registration: http://americanpieapplestore.eventbrite.com/

Discussion Panel:

Moderator:
Christopher Allen, Author of iPhone in Action: Introduction to Web and SDK Development

Panelists:
Sean Galligan, VP of Business Development at Flurry, Inc.
Anu Shukia, CEO at Offerpal
Mike Fyall, Product Marketing Manager at Admob
Lee Linden, Co-Founder at Tapjoy

What You Will Learn:

* iPhone App Store Strategy: Design, Category, Pricing
* iPhone Analyic: Web Traffic and SDK Install
* iPhone Intelligence: Usage and Behavior
* iPhone Monetization Options: Ad Network, Virtual Currency, iTune Store
* iPhone Developer Challenges: How to increase and sustain income?

Anu Shukla
Founder and CEO at Offerpal Media
Anu Shukla is a serial entrepreneur. Prior to founding Offerpal Media, she was the founder and CEO of Mybuys Inc. where she currently serves on the Board of Directors. Mybuys is a venture-backed company in the eCommerce personalization market. Prior to Mybuys, Anu pioneered the category of Internet Marketing Automation as founder and CEO of Rubric, Inc. Rubric was acquired in 2000 for $366 million. Prior to Rubric, Anu has held a variety of executive roles including the VP of Marketing and Product Strategy at Versata (VATA), and Vice President of Worldwide Marketing and Product Management at Compuware/Uniface Corporation (CPWR). Anu has served on the Board of Directors of the International Museum of Women (imow.org) and the Advisory Board for the Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University. She was named to the Computer Industry "Dream Team" by Business 2.0 magazine in 2004, awarded the YSU Distinguished Alumni award in 2005, and the Entrepreneur of the Year by the Washington D.C. based Dialogue on Diversity organization in 2005. In 2007 Anu was awarded an Honorary Doctorate degree from Youngstown State University in recognition of her business achievements.

Sean Galligan
Vice President of Business Development at Flurry, Inc.
Sean brings more than 13 years of experience in business development, marketing and sales with major operators and start-ups in the telecommunications industry. At Sprint, he helped launch the company's e-business and mobile computing business units. Prior to joining Flurry, Sean served as Vice President, Commercial Operations at Global Motorsport Group (GMG), a wholesale distribution company controlled by private equity firm Cerberus Capital Management. As a member of the executive team, Sean worked directly with Cerberus to develop GMG's turn-around plan. Sean holds a Bachelor of Science from Purdue University and a Master of Business Administration from Cornell University.

Mike Fyall
Product Marketing Manager at Admob
As Manager of Product Marketing at AdMob, Mike Fyall is responsible for the company’s product marketing for next generation platforms, including iPhone and Android, and creating the monthly AdMob Mobile Metrics Report. Prior to joining AdMob, Mike worked at Nielsen Mobile as an account manager handling the company’s relationship with a major national operator. Mike received his undergraduate degree from Stanford University and an MBA from Harvard.

Lee Linden
Co-Founder at Tapjoy
Lee Linden is the co-founder of Tapjoy, a venture-funded mobile software company that is on a mission to help developers improve mobile applications and earn more in the process. He developed a passion for mobile software during his time at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, where he assisted with the creation of the iFund, an investmentinitiativewhich focuses onproducts that extend the revolutionary new iPhone and iPod touch platform.

Lee previously worked in product development at Microsoft and helped create both enterprise and consumer offerings within company. He also co-founded ContestMachine.com, a self-service marketing website which thousands of small businesses use to run online promotions. Lee studied computer engineering at the University of Michigan and later earned an MBA from Stanford's Graduate School of Business.

6/11/09 Browser Standards from 2D to 3D

websig — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 01:49:52 CDT

Jun 11 Thu
Browser Standards from 2D to 3D
Joint meeting with ACM SIGGraph
Registration: http://browserstandard3d.eventbrite.com/

Date: Jun 11, 2009 Thu
Time: 7:30pm-9:30pm
Location: "Garage I", building 4, Apple R&D Campus
Address: 4 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, CA, 95014
Snack & Drink: Sponsored by ACM GRAPHSIG
$5 at the door

Graphics on the Web: Going Beyond Images and Rectangles

by Vladimir Vukicevic

Over the past few years, browser innovation has proceeded at a fever pitch. As a result, the open web has many capabilities that were not possible even a few years ago, all available in a standards-compliant and cross-platform way. In this presentation, we'll look at some of the recently available capabilities, as well as provide a look at features that are currently being worked on. We'll also examine efforts to get 3D capabilities into the browser, and talk about some of the core improvements in browser technologies that are making this possible.

Vladimir Vukicevic's blog

Khronos Launches Initiative to Create Open Royalty Free Standard for Accelerated 3D on the Web

Vladimir Vukicevic has been involved with the Mozilla project for four years, and is currently the Firefox technical lead. Vlad is interested in bringing new capabilities to the open web platform, especially in the graphics and multimedia areas, to enable the development of rich and engaging web applications. In the past, he's been involved in improving portions of the Firefox UI, optimizing the browser's rendering layer, as well as implementing features such as the HTML5 Canvas in Firefox.

Silicon Valley ACM SIGGRAPH Professional Chapter Events are open to the public.
Agenda
7:30pm, Doors open, drinks, snacks
8:00pm, Feature presentation - "Graphics on the Web: Going Beyond Images and Rectangles "

06/01/09 Flex Tour

websig — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 01:48:50 CDT

Jun 1st Mon
Flex 4 Beta Roadshow
Joint meeting with SilvaFUG Silicon Valley Flex User Group
Registration: http://flexroadshow2009.eventbrite.com/

Date: Jun 1, 2009 Mon
Time: 7:00pm-9:00pm
Location: NASA Ames Research Center
Address: Moffett Fld, Moutain View, CA 94085
"Take Moffat/NASA Pkwy Exit. Tell the Guard: Bld 583C Corner of McCord & Edquiba"
Food & Drink: Sponsored by Adobe & Roundpeg

Hot on the heels of FlashCamp 2009, SilvaFUG will be the first stop of Adobe's massive User Group Tour travelling throughout 199 cities around the world this summer. Come learn about the newest features in the Flex 4 framework and SDK. See product feature demos, and learn how the new Flex framework powers both Flash Catalyst and Flex Builder to speed the development and testing of rich Internet applications and content.

YoungWebBuilderHackathon

websig — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:22:06 CDT

O'Reilly InsideMobile Conference
Community Sponsor
Date: 7/26-27 Sun&Mon
Time: 8am-5pm
Location: eBay Town Hall
Address: 2211 N. 1st Street, San Jose CA 95131
Registration: http://www.insidemobilecon.com/

Aug Wed (TBD)
Young Web Builders Hackathon Part I
Registration: http://youngwebbuilder1.eventbrite.com/

Date: TBD
Time: 6:00pm-9:30pm
Location: Hurricane Electric
Address: 48233 Warm Spring Blvd, Fremont California 94539
Food & Drink: Sponsored by Hurricane Electric

SVWB believes in building our future in Silicon Valley. It is very important that we train the next wave of young developers in basic web skill, cultivate their understanding in web technology, teach them how to find co-founders and form founding team, and encourage them to become entrepreneurs.

This is workshop for young web builders at ages under 21. Scholarship for this workshop is available if you write a one-page statement on how you like to change the world.

Bring:
Mac or PC with wifi
Android and/or iPhone

Part I is the “Zero to App” Workshop. This workshop will teach you how to build a mobile Twitter application with photo capability from start to finish! What do you learn:

Learn basic web skill HTML, CSS, Javascript
Learn how to build mobile app
Learn how to code on IDE
Learn how to use images
Learn how to compile mobile app
Learn how to design mobile app

What do you earn:

Exclusive FREE beta access to Appcelerator’s Titanium platform
Training Course Material
Sample Code on mobile app
Mobile App

Sponsor
Appcelerator empowers millions of the world’s Web developers to create, test, and commercialize native mobile and desktop applications. The company’s flagship Titanium product allows developers to use the Web capabilities they already have to develop rich applications for both iPhoneTM and AndroidTM mobile devices. Download the Titanium beta product for free at www.appcelerator.com.

Photo

websig — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 05:41:48 CDT

UI Tools

websig — Thu, 21 May 2009 22:18:42 CDT

Share Desktop Images & Interaction Videos
http://www.jingproject.com/

Share comments on Images and screen captures
http://vyew.com/site/

Share comments on Images
http://www.conceptshare.com/

Wire Frame Tool
http://www.balsamiq.com/products/mockups

UI
http://developer.yahoo.com/flash/

Voice
http://developer.ribbit.com/

5/12/09 Designer & Developer Workflow CS4 & Flex Builder3

websig — Sun, 17 May 2009 16:32:21 CDT

May 12 & 14 2009
Designer and Developer Work flow: CS4 & Flex

Speakers
Chris - Designer Extraordinare will give Flex Primer
Bess Ho - UI Developer/Designer
Keith Sutton - SilvaFUG South Manager
6:30-7:00 Introduction to Flex - Setting Styles
7:00-9:00 Designer and Developer Workflow and Resources

RSVP for both dates: http://designerdeveloperworkflow.eventbrite.com

May 12, 2009 Tue
Adobe San Francisco
601 Townsend St, San Francisco, CA 94103

May 14, 2009 Thu
Adobe HQ East Tower
345 Park Ave, San Jose, CA 95110

Flex Primer for Designers - from the design entry-point - basic
framework, layout, skinning, components, states, and transitions;
Design for Flex Developers - creating design elements in CS4 and
taking the resources into Flex to get a mock-up running;
Adding meat to the mock-up - application architecture, data
management and services using PureMVC.

4/29/09 Toy Story on Social Mobile UXP Design

websig — Sun, 17 May 2009 16:29:30 CDT

Apr 29 Wed 6:00pm-9:00 PM

Toy Story on Social Mobile UXP Design:
Using Fun to Drive Social Distribution of iPhone Games

Event Title: Toy Story on Social Mobile UXP Design - Using Fun to Drive Social Distribution of iPhone Games
Date: Apr 29 Wed 7:00pm-9:00pm
Speaker: Nicole Lazzaro, Founder and President at XEODesign, Inc
Location: Hurricane Electric
Address: 48233 Warm Spring Blvd, Fremont California 94539
Food & Drink: Sponsored by Hurricane Electric

Registration: http://socialmobiledesign.eventbrite.com/

Nicole Lazzaro, Founder and President at XEODesign, Inc.
Nicole Lazzaro is the Founder and President of XEODesign, Inc. She has eighteen years of expertise in Player Experience Design for mass-market entertainment products. Voted by Gamasutra as one of the Top 20 women working in video games, her clients including Sony, EA, Ubisoft, Sega, PlayFirst, The Cartoon Network, Disney, LeapFrog, Mattel, Monolith, Xfire, D.I.C.E, Leap Frog, Ugobe, The Learning Company, Broderbund, Roxio, Cisco, Go Pets, Sierra Online, and Maxis. She has a degree in Psychology from Stanford University where she also studied film making and computer programming.
Since founding XEODesign in 1992 Nicole's design and research has improved over 40 million player experiences, including several popular franchises for casual audiences such as three of the Myst Series, Diner Dash, GoPets, Cosmopolitan Virtual Makeover, Mavis Beacon teaches Typing, Jeopardy Online, as well as creativity coaching for the designers of The Sims.

Nicole was the first person to use facial expressions to measure player experiences. Through this research which she published in 2004 she discovered that people’s favorite player experiences (PX) craft emotion by offering choices in four play styles: the Hard Fun from challenge and mastery, Easy Fun from exploration and role play, Serious Fun for relaxation and real work, and People Fun from the excuse to hang out with friends. XEODesign's PX model on emotion and games called the 4 Fun Keys inspires a wide range of creative approaches for crafting more emotions from play. With the 4 Fun Keys developers access player's emotional response to innovate early in the development cycle where there is much less risk.

4/8/09 Python 3.0 and its love interests

websig — Sun, 17 May 2009 16:26:16 CDT

Apr 8 Wed 6:00pm-9:00 PM
Python3.0 and its love interest with App Engine

Python3.0 and its love interest with App Engine

Joint Event: Silicon Valley Web Builder (SVWB) & Google Technology User Group (GTUG)

Date/Time: 4/8/09 Wed 6-9PM
Speakers:
Jeff Scudder, App Engine Engineer at Google
Alex Martelli, Python Engineer at Google
Dave Westwood, Founder & App Engine Developer at Buddypoke
Location: Google, Mountain View Campus
Address: Tunis Tech Talk Building 43, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043

Agenda
6:00-7:00 Social & Demo
7:00-7:45PM Python3.0: History & Future
7:45-8:00PM Break
8:00-8:45PM Python in Google App Engine
8:45PM-9:00PM Top Google App Engine Developer Experience Chat - BuddyPoke
Food & Drink: Sponsored by Google

Registration: http://pythonloveappengine.eventbrite.com/

3/25/09 Sound of iPhone Data

websig — Sun, 17 May 2009 16:25:40 CDT

Mar 25 Wed 7:00pm-9:00 PM

The Sound of iPhone Data:
Analytics and Business Intelligence

Event Title: The Sound of iPhone Data: Analytics and Business Intelligence
Date/Time: 3/25/09 Wed 7-9PM

Speakers:Sean Galligan, VP at Flurry
Presentation: iPhone Analytics & Business Intelligence
Kevin Leong, Founder, CEO & CTO at MoBlast
Presentation: A Developer’s Prospective: DevelopingNokia Web Runtime,iPhone SDK, and Android apps
Location: Hurricane Electric
Address: 48233 Warm Spring Blvd, Fremont California 94539
Food & Drink: Sponsored by Hurricane Electric
Giveaway sponsors: O'Reilly and Pearson
Giveways: iPhone SDK Developer Books

What You Will Learn:

Mobile ApplicationTrends & Insights
Flurry iPhone Analytics Demo
Using Analytics to Improve your Application
How to install FlurryLib and FlurryLibLocation into Xcode
What additional info you gather on FlurryLibLocation
Focus mostly on iPhone & Android
Supported platform on iPhone, Android, Black Berry, Java

Sean Galligan - Vice President, Business Development at Flurry, Inc.

Sean is responsible for developing and managing Flurry's distribution strategy, partnerships, and revenue model. He leads the company's partnership development with content providers, carriers, social networks, on-line communities, developers and device manufacturers. He has over 13 years of experience in business development, marketing and sales with major operators and start-ups in the telecommunications industry. At Sprint,he was part of the team thatlaunched the company's e-Business and Mobile Computing business units and led the sales organizations for those businessesin the eastern region. Sean holds a Bachelor of Science from Purdue University and a Master of Business Administration from Cornell University.

Kevin Leong, Founder & CEO/CTO at MoBlast
A Developer’s Prospective: DevelopingNokia Web Runtime,iPhone SDK, and Android apps Developers can no longer bet on one handset. 2008 was the year of the iPhone and the introduction of Android. Blackberry and Microsoft have responded. Nokia is responding with Nokia Web Runtime. Palm has created quite a lot of buzz with the Palm Pre.

Navigating through the menu of platform options is a challenge. The stakes are huge. Our success will largely depend on how we tackle the cross-platform challenges. Mo’Blast is one startup operating deep in this arena. Last week at a Nokia Open House, Kevin Leong, the founder of the company, presented an in-depth prospectus of iPhone SDK, Android and Nokia Web Runtime. He agreed to speak to us this Wednesday.

Registration: http://iphoneanalytics.eventbrite.com/

2/18/09 Matrix of AJAX Reloaded

websig — Sun, 17 May 2009 16:25:08 CDT

Feb 18 Wed 7:00-9:00 PM (Feb)
The Matrix of AJAX: Revolutions:

JQuery, Dojo, YUI, GWT, and MooTools
Live Chat
http://live.confetto.org/chat/?roomName=pub:ajaxrevolutions
Google Moderator to post questions
http://moderator.appspot.com/#16/e=19f32

The Matrix of AJAX Revolutions: JQuery, Dojo, YUI, GWT, and MooTools
Speakers:
Dylan Schiemann, Co-creator of Dojo Toolkit, CEO at SitePen, Co-Founder at Comet Daily
Yehuda Katz, JQuery Contributor and Engineering Manager at Engine Yard
Adam Moore, Architect of YUI and founding engineers at Yahoo
Fred Sau, Developer Advocate at Google, GWT contributor, Author of gwt-dnd, gwt-log and gwt-voices
Tom Occhino, Contributing Developer at MooTools

Moderator: Michael Carter, Silicon Valley JavaScript Meetup Leader
Date: 2/18/09 Wed
Time: 7:00pm-9:00pm
Location: Google Campus
Address: Bodega Bay Room, 1950 Charleston Rd, Mountain View, CA 94043

Food & Drink: Sponsored by Google

Joint Meeting with Silicon Valley JavaScript Meetup Leader

Registration:http://matrixajax.eventbrite.com

6:00pm - 7:00pm - Social Hour
7:00pm - 7:15pm - Announcements and Google Recruiter
7:15pm - 8:30pm - Panel
8:30pm - 8:45pm - Q&A

State of Job Market and Best / Worst Strategies (10 min)

Tom Zhang, Google Senior Recruiter

Tom Zhang, Google Senior Recruiter
Tom (Qi) Zhang has been with Google Staffing since Jan. 2006. As the G-Talent evangelist, Tom has been doing sourcing/recruiting to meet Google's staffing needs. Before joining Google, he taught at Computer Science Department at San Jose State University. Tom received his Ph.D. degree from Zhejiang University, China.

Dylan Schiemann, Co-creator of Dojo Toolkit, CEO at SitePen, Co-Founder at Comet Daily
As CEO of SitePen and co-founder of the Dojo Toolkit, Dylan is best known for building web applications that make use of JavaScript/Ajax, Dojo, and other standard web development technologies. He has helped develop web apps for companies including Renkoo, Informatica, Security FrameWorks, and Vizional Technologies. Dylan earned his Masters in Physical Chemistry from UCLA and his B.A. in Mathematics from Whittier College.

Adam Moore, Architect of YUI and founding engineers at Yahoo

Adam Moore is a career engineer who joined Yahoo in 2005 to help create the YUI Library. Adam authored many of YUI's core components, including its support for events, custom events, language abstractions, drag and drop, dependency management, script loading, tree and slider interactions, and more. Currently Adam is one of the core engineers helping to create YUI3, the next generation of the library.

Fred Sauer, Developer Advocate at Google, GWT contributor, Author of gwt-dnd, gwt-log and gwt-voices
Fred Sauer is a Developer Advocate at Google where most of his time is devoted to Google-Web-Toolkit and Google App Engine. He is the author of various GWT related open source projects including gwt-dnd (providing in browser Drag and Drop capabilities), gwt-log (an advanced logging framework) and gwt-voices (for cross browser sound support). Fred has dedicated much of his career to Java related development, with an increasing focus on Web 2.0 technologies. As a consultant he has worked on a wide variety of projects in North America, Asia and Europe, primarily in the financial and billing industry.

http://code.google.com/p/gwt-dnd/
http://code.google.com/p/gwt-log/
http://code.google.com/p/gwt-voices/

Tom Occhino, Contributing Developer at MooTools
Tom’s professional expertise lies in JavaScript and front-end web development. He began experimenting with JavaScript at a young age, and is now a MooTools core developer. In addition to his own projects, Tom has worked with Fairtilizer and Adobe as a freelance web developer, and now works as a Software Engineer for Facebook. Outside of JavaScript, Tom loves music, cooking, Apple products, and spending time with his family and friends.

Mobile Resources

websig — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 20:23:16 CDT

Nokia OVI Stores
Registration: https://publish.ovi.com/register/publisher
Login: https://publish.ovi.com/login

Nokia Developer Forum
Registration: https://www.forum.nokia.com/Sign_Up.xhtml
Login: https://sso.forum.nokia.com/login

1/28/09 Matrix Faceoff iPhone and Android SDK

websig — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:03:10 CST

Jan 28 Wed 7:00-9:00 PM
The Matrix Face Off: iPhone SDK and Android Development
30 min JavaScript & AJAX Workshop
The Matrix Faceoff: iPhone SDK and Android Development
Speaker: Jack Herrington, Apress Book Author of "Flex 3 Component Solutions: Build Amazing Interfaces with Flex Components"
30 min AJAX Framework Workshop by Michael Carter, Silicon Valley JavaScript Meetup Leader
Date: 1/28/09 Wed
Time: 7:00pm-9:00pm
Location: Hurricane Electric
Address: 48233 Warm Spring Blvd, Fremont California 94539
Food & Drink: Sponsored by Hurricane Electric
Giveaway & Media: Sponsored by Apress

Registration:http://iphoneandroidfaceoff.eventbrite.com

Jack Herrington is an engineer, author and presenter who lives and works in the Bay Area. His mission is to expose his fellow engineers to new technologies. That covers a broad spectrum, from demonstrating programs that write other programs in the book Code Generation in Action. Providing techniques for building customer centered web sites in PHP Hacks and Getting Started With Flex 3. All the way writing a how-to on audio blogging called Podcasting Hacks. All of which make great holiday gifts and are available online here, and at your local bookstore. Jack also writes articles for O’Reilly, DevX and IBM Developerworks.

Jack lives with his wife, daughter and two adopted dogs. When he is not writing software, books or articles you can find him on his bike, running or in the pool training for triathlons. You can keep up with Jack's work and his writing at http://jackherrington.com.

Speaker Powerpoints
http://jackherrington.com/extras/Milpitas.ppt
http://tinyurl.com/milpitasiphone

Our Team

websig — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 02:39:25 CST

Bess Ho: Founder & Chairman
Benny Ng: Facility Chair

Alex Amaya: Video Chair

Newton Chan: Technical Evangelist
Clive Boulton: Technical Evangelist
Abdulkarriem Khan: Technical Evangelist
Albert Liu: Technical Evangelist
Ariel Jakobovits:Technical Evangelist

10/29/2008 The Chronicles of Web Standard: the HTML 5, the Comet and the WebSocket

websig — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 02:11:51 CST

Post-Event Resources:

Discussion Video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coZ-jVLsmVA

Workshop Video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BJpg20uoQ40

Related blog posts:
http://www.jroller.com/tedgoddard/entry/websocket_is_neither_web_nor
http://svwebbuilder.wordpress.com/2008/10/20/html5-websocket-and-webjneering/
http://svwebbuilder.wordpress.com/2008/10/16/html-5-the-future-is-now/

User submitted questions from Google Moderator
http://tr.im/svwb_oct08

Date/Time: 10/29/2008 Wed 7:00-9:30pm
Event: The Chronicles of Web Standard: the HTML 5, the Comet and the WebSocket
Moderator & Presenter: Kevin Nilson, Principal Software Architect at E*Trade Financial
Speakers:
Alex Rusell, President of the Dojo Foundation & Project Lead for The Dojo Toolkit

Dion Almaer, Open Web Advocate at Google and co-founder of Ajaxian.com and "Audible Ajax" podcast
Michale Carter, Founder at Orbited Project & Official Contributor for W3C HTML5

John Fallows, CTO and co-founder at Kaazing

Ted Goddard,Senior Software Architect at ICEsoft Technologies and ICEfaces.org

Location: Google, Mountain View Campus

Address: Tunis Tech Talk Building 43, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043

Registration URL: http://webstandard.eventbrite.com
FREE if register online

Sponsored: Google
Book Sponsors:
O'Reilly, Apress, Manning, Pragmatic
in supporting their book authors

Agenda

6:30 - 7:00 Networking

7:00 - 7:15 Introduce Comet, Introduce Panel Topic, Introduce Panel
Members (Kevin Nilson)
7:15 - 8:15 Panel Discussion (Full Panel)
8:15 - 8:30 Q/A (Full Panel, moderated by Kevin Nilson)
8:30 - 8:45 Break / Network / Signage / Raffle
8:45 - 9:30 Technical Comet Presentation: Overview of Polling, Long Polling, and Streaming, followed by Details Bayuex using Cometd (Kevin Nilson)

Event Summary
The Chronicles of Web Standard: the HTML 5, the Comet and the WebSocket will be an exciting event coving Comet, HTML 5, the latest, and future enhancements to the web. AJAX became popular because it allows a browser to request additional information from the server. One major limitation of AJAX is that the browser must initiate the request for data from the server. Comet solves this problem by allowing the server to push data to the browser at any time. This event will start with a general introduction to Comet, followed by an in depth panel discussion moderated by Kevin Nilson with panelist: John Fallows, Alex Russell, and.. . After the panel Kevin Nilson will give a Technical Comet Presentation which outlines: Overview of Polling, Long Polling, and Streaming, followed by Details Bayuex using Cometd.

What is Web Socket
The HTML5 WebSocket standard defines the future of networking for browser applications, delivering full-duplex, bidirectional text-based communication between browsers and WebSocket servers. The WebSocket connection handshake leverages the HTTP standard to integrate with existing Web infrastructure, such as proxies, firewalls and load balancers, and then upgrades the wire protocol to remove the limitations of the HTTP request-response communication model. With WebSockets, browsers will be able to participate as first-class citizens in networked applications that are typically reserved for desktop clients, such as XMPP (Jabber) chat applications, as well as online gaming and financial trading applications.

Kaazing Enterprise Gateway makes this future promise a reality today by emulating the WebSocket API with two HTTP connections, one for upstream and one for downstream. Kaazing goes further by adding support for binary communication, and delivers various WebSocket protocol clients, including XMPP. When sufficientily capable plug-ins are available, Kaazing instead implements the WebSocket standard precisely, using only a single, full-duplex, bidirectional network connection. Browser applications built using Kaazing Enterprise Gateway today will seemlessly fall forward onto the HTML5 WebSocket implementation from browser vendors in future.

Workshop
Technical Comet Presentation: Overview of Polling, Long Polling, and Streaming, followed by Details Bayuex using Cometd
Presenter: Kevin Nilson

Teaches you methods of pushing Data to the Browser from the Server
Designed for those with limited knowledge of Comet and Bayeux
Focus more on Principals of Comet rather than on Language
Live Java Based Examples using Dojo and Jetty
Covers Pros and Cons when Deciding between Polling, Long Polling, and Streaming
Covers the Advantages of Bayeux
Getting Started Advanced Examples using Cometd / Bayeux

Book Author Appearances
Alex Russell

Mastering Dojo, 1st Edition
Author: Rawld Gill, Craig Riecke, Alex Russell
Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf (June 2008)
http://pragprog.com/titles/rgdojo/mastering-dojo
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9781934356111/index.html

Dion Almaer

Pragmatic Ajax: A Web 2.0 Primer
Author: Justin Gehtland, Ben Galbraith, Dion Almaer
Publisher: Pragmatic Bookshelf (April 10, 2006)
http://pragprog.com/titles/ajax/pragmatic-ajax
http://oreilly.com/catalog/9780976694083/index.html

Ajax
Author: Dion Almaer
Publisher: Hanser Fachbuchverlag (September 30, 2006)

John Fallows

Pro JSF and Ajax: Building Rich Internet Components
Author: John R. Fallows, Jonas Jacobi
Publisher: Apress (February 13, 2006)
http://www.amazon.com/Pro-JSF-Ajax-Building-Components/dp/1590595807

Ted Goddard

Ajax in Practice
Author: Dave Crane, Jord Sonneveld and Bear Bibeault with Ted Goddard,
Chris Gray, Ram Venkataraman and Joe Walker
Publisher: Manning (June 2007)
http://www.manning.com/crane2/

Alex Russell
President of theDojo Foundation
Project Lead forThe Dojo Toolkit
Director of R&D atSitePen
Alex Russell served as Project Lead for the Dojo Toolkit from 2004 to 2008 and is Director of R&D at SitePen, a consultancy focused on the development of web applications, exceptional user experience, and pushing the limits of the web. Currently, he serves as President of the Dojo Foundation, an organization that supports development of several high-quality, open source, JavaScript projects and distributes them under liberal terms. Prior to joining SitePen, Russell was a senior engineer at JotSpot and Informatica where he helped both companies build highly interactive, web interfaces. His earlier, open source involvement included stints as editor of the OWASP Guide to Building Secure Web Applications and primary author of the netWindows DHTML toolkit.

Dion Almaer
Open Web Advocate at Google and co-founder of Ajaxian.com and "Audible Ajax" podcast.
Dion Almaer is the co-founder of Ajaxian.com, the leading Ajax community, and "Audible Ajax" the popular podcast. He works in the Google Developer Programs group as an Open Web Advocate spending time in the land ofcode.google.comand working with developer facing technology. Dion loves building useful Web applications, enjoys writing having co-authored "Pragmatic Ajax", and speaking at events around the world including JavaOne, and Web 2.0 Expo.

Michale Carter

Founder at Orbited Project & Official Contributor for W3C HTML5

Michael Carter is an expert on highly scalable, real-time web application architectures. He is an officially recognized contributor to the W3C HTML5 specification, particularly for his work with the WebSocket proposal. He is the founder and lead of the Orbited project (http://www.orbited.org), an MIT licensed Comet server built for high-performance browser networking. He is currently a freelance consultant and technical lead for OSSLine (www.ossline.org), a Silicon Valley non-profit that provides technical and legal infrastructure to a host of Open Source projects, including Orbited, the browser network protocols projectjs.io(http://js.io), and the python message queue MorbidQ (http://www.morbidq.com). Michael formerly worked as a Senior Software Architect at Brand Up (http://www.brand-up.com) and CTO at Idealistics (www.idealistics.org). He is a world renowned rollerblade free styler and speed demon, and in some other life he does nothing but play Hockey full time.

John Fallows
CTO and co-founder at Kaazing
John Fallows is a pioneer in the field of rich and highly interactive user interfaces and co-founder of Kaazing. Originally from Northern Ireland, he graduated from Cambridge University in the United Kingdom and has worked in the software industry for more than 10 years. Before founding Kaazing, John was a consulting member of the technical staff for server technologies at Oracle. During his last five years at Oracle, he focused on designing, developing, and evolving Oracle ADF Faces to fully integrate AJAX technologies. He is co-author of the best-selling book, "Pro JSF and Ajax: Building Rich Internet Components," (Apress). In his role as chief technology officer, John formulates Kaazing's vision of creating the best real-time Web framework based on the Java standard. He defines the architecture of the Kaazing product suite and oversees its development.

Kevin Nilson
Principal Software Architect at E*Trade Financial
Kevin Nilson is currently a Principal Software Architect for E*Trade Financial in Menlo Park, CA. He is the co-lead of the Silicon Valley Web Developer JUG <https://sv-web-jug.dev.java.net/>. He is also the co-lead of the Silicon Valley Google Technology User Group <http://sv-gtug.org/>.
Prior to E*Trade Financial, Kevin had extensive industry software engineering and consulting experience with companies such as: Pfizer, Northrop Grumman, AT&T Corporation, etc. He also worked part-time as an adjunct professor at the College of San Mateo.
Kevin received a Bachelors degree in Computer Science with a Minor in Mathematics from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale and a Masters degree in Computer Science from Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville. He is a Sun Certified Java Programmer and Sun Certified Web Component Developer.
You can learn more about Kevin on his website JavaClimber.com <http://www.javaclimber.com/>.

Ted Goddard
Senior Software Architect atICEsoft Technologies and ICEfaces.org

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