Google Developer Day Sydney - Aaron Boodman

Google Gears: Building Better AJAX applications
Presented by Aaron Boodman

AJAX applications are at the core of web development, providing both opportunities and challenges. We'll be discussing some of the ways we can address those challenges in this session. More details will be provided at Developer Day.

Aaron Boodman started life as a musician, a mistake he rectified early to the delight of his teachers and dormmates. Suddenly finding himself with more time on his hands, he taught himself to program and began experimenting with and writing about the collection of technologies that became known as "AJAX" many years later. His work from 2000-2001 continues to be referenced and reused today in modern JavaScript toolkits. More recently, he is the creator of Greasemonkey, a popular browser extension that allows people to "mash up" websites using JavaScript. At Google he works on experimental web technology, and occasionally lends a hand on UI for products like Gmail, Reader, and Blogger.

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[avochief]

I agree!

I have never come across any else like Aaron. His not only a great programmer but a visionary as well. which is a unique combination. Also to think we had the privilege of seeing Aaron work in the early stages on what is only now been identified as AJAX and Web 2.0 technologies.

Great presentation! Its great to see you still have the same zeal for techonology as when you were a "youngpup".

[alyseskyetee]

YAY!!! my brother's so cool!

[roseeliff]

Aaron Boodman is one of the single most brilliant people I've known in my lifetime. I worked with him in 2000-2001 and was so impressed with the extent of him as a person and as a professional. Great to see him expounding on his work with such passion. Good on ya, Aaron!

[waynehoggett]

Great presentation. I can't wait to start working with Google Gears. I am a network administrator and part-time web application developer that commonly gets asked: "What do we do if our internet goes down?" I used to say, not much, but soon I will be able to say: "Just keep working..."

[chambross]

You talk so fast!.....

First rule when you talk in front of people:

Don't mention about being nervous cause usually people will not realize that.... btw, nice presentation!

[rancora]

Aaron! Great job :) You'll only get better on presentations as you make more!

Kudos

- jooli

[Jerry Lin]

I love the innovative stuff Google is constantly doing!

To Aaron Boodman. I think you did a great job giving your presentation!

[Marcin Lewicki]

Gears are cool - i wrote one of my project using this app. Good work google.

[DudeParallel]

Love Google Gears, it has so much potential.

I will be starting on doing some projects with it tomorrow, just learning some more of the functionality and so on.

If only web browsers implemented these ideas earlier...instead of the mess we have now :|

[notjosh]

*hug*