1. Ajax for Web 2.0 Presented by: Jonathan Meersman

2. The Conference 2009 – Las VegasMarch 11-13, 2009 Presenter Background  Current Industry Employment Milwaukee Area Technical College – Web Design Faculty  Previous Industry Experience HostingSpot.com – Founder & Past President General Electric – eLead Systems Designer Milwaukee Kickers Soccer Club – Multimedia Coordinator  Education MBA in eBusiness BA in Geography (focus: Computer Cartography)

3. The Conference 2009 – Las VegasMarch 11-13, 2009 Session Agenda  History of Ajax  Ajax Defined  Ajax Advantages & Disadvantages  Ajax Frameworks  Live Demonstration  Ajax Course at MATC  Web Design at MATC

4. The Conference 2009 – Las VegasMarch 11-13, 2009 History of Ajax  Term first used in 2005 by Jesse James Garrett  Asynchronous JavaScript and XML  Used to create web applications

5. The Conference 2009 – Las VegasMarch 11-13, 2009 Ajax Defined  Ajax is several technologies, each flourishing in its own right, coming together in powerful new ways. Ajax incorporates: standards-based presentation using XHTML and CSS; dynamic display and interaction using the Document Object Model; data interchange and manipulation using XML and XSLT; asynchronous data retrieval using XMLHttpRequest; and JavaScript binding everything together.

6. The Conference 2009 – Las VegasMarch 11-13, 2009 Ajax Advantages  Based on open standards  Can decrease bandwidth by only updating content that needs to be updated  Allows sites to be more interactive, yet quicker than static sites  Reduces connections to web servers (i.e..css file only needs to be requested once)

7. The Conference 2009 – Las VegasMarch 11-13, 2009 Ajax Disadvantages  May not register with browser’s history engine, making back button only semi-functional  Does not work well with search engine optimization  Does not work if user has JavaScript disabled in browser  Minimal support with mobile devices

8. The Conference 2009 – Las VegasMarch 11-13, 2009 Ajax Frameworks FrameworkFramework Example JavaScriptYahoo User Interface Library (YUI) JavaGoogle Web Toolkit.NETASP.NET AJAX PHPSajax PythonPyjamas

9. The Conference 2009 – Las VegasMarch 11-13, 2009 Live Demonstration  Demonstration of an Ajax Framework

10. The Conference 2009 – Las VegasMarch 11-13, 2009 Example Sites  http://www.ajaxrain.com/ (aggregator of Ajax examples) http://www.ajaxrain.com/  http://maps.google.com/ (great Ajax example) http://maps.google.com/  http://www.meebo.com/ (Ajax IM client) http://www.meebo.com/  http://us.samples.gaiaware.net/ChatClient.aspx http://us.samples.gaiaware.net/ChatClient.aspx  https://developer.mozilla.org/En/AJAX:Getting_Started https://developer.mozilla.org/En/AJAX:Getting_Started

11. The Conference 2009 – Las VegasMarch 11-13, 2009 Ajax Course at MATC  Advanced Web Site Development (VICOM-125) Fourth Semester Course Web Development with JavaScript & Ajax

12. The Conference 2009 – Las VegasMarch 11-13, 2009 Web Design at MATC  Visual Communications (Multimedia) Visual Communications 69 Credits (A.A.S. Degree)  eCommerce/Web Administration eCommerce/Web Administration 70 Credits (A.A.S. Degree)  Web Designer Web Designer 32 Credits (Technical Diploma)  Graphic Technologies/Web Development Graphic Technologies/Web Development 9 Credits (Advanced Technical Certificate)

13. The Conference 2009 – Las VegasMarch 11-13, 2009 Updated Presentation  Downloads www.JonathanMeersman.com/course09

14. The Conference 2009 – Las VegasMarch 11-13, 2009 Q & A  Time for Questions

15. The Conference 2009 – Las VegasMarch 11-13, 2009 Resources  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_(programming) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_(programming)  http://www.adaptivepath.com/ideas/essays/archives/000385.php http://www.adaptivepath.com/ideas/essays/archives/000385.php  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_framework http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_framework  http://www.asp.net/ajax/ http://www.asp.net/ajax/  http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/ http://code.google.com/webtoolkit/  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ajax_frameworks http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Ajax_frameworks  http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Programming/Languages/JavaScript/AJAX/ http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Programming/Languages/JavaScript/AJAX/  http://www.ajaxwith.com/ http://www.ajaxwith.com/  http://www.ajaxrain.com/ http://www.ajaxrain.com/  http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/ http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/

16. The Conference 2009 – Las VegasMarch 11-13, 2009 Presenter Contact Information Jonathan Meersman Milwaukee Area Technical College 6665 South Howell Avenue Oak Creek, WI 53154 (414) 571-4635 meersmaj@matc.edu