Club AJAX Presentations
- The Great Semicolon Debate
May 1st 2012 — by Mike Wilcox (more…)
- AMD – Why, What and How
January 2nd 2012 — by Mike Wilcox (more…)
- MDV Web Applications
November 1st, 2011 — by Max Motovilov (more…)
- Webpage Design Basics for Non-Designers
July 5th, 2011 — by Mike Wilcox (more…)
- Hype Animation Tutorial
June 7th, 2011 — by Mike Wilcox (more…)
- Why You Need a Front End Developer
Ajax, CSS3, HTML5, Flex – are you working on all that and a server side language too? (more…)
- A Conversation About REST
By Jeremy Brown — April 2011
This presentation will explain what REST is and also present a variety of topics and questions you will certainly come across while implementing your API.
(more…) - The Fight Over HTML5
Are the rumors greatly exaggerated or is HTML5 is dead? What about that logo? (more…)
- Business and Career Development Tips for AJAX Programmers
By Lance Cox — September 2010
Based on his accumulated experience in the business world, Lance will share tips and advice on how you can take charge and manage your career and achieve greater success.
- SSJS, NoSQL, GAE, and AppEngineJS
By Eugene Latzukin — August 2010
We are on a doorstep of a next wave of web server technologies. Server-Side JavaScript, NoSQL databases, and elastic clouds. (more…)
- HTML5 Video Explained
By Mike Wilcox — July 2010
What is HTML5 Video, what are its problems, and how do we use it?
- Optimize Your Website to Load Faster!
By Mike Wilcox — June 2010
Slow websites are not only frustrating, they can cause you to lose your audience — and money. What is a “fast” website? What are the keys to page performance? What image type is best? And most importantly, what is the best way to load all external resources for optimal speed?
- The History of HTML5
By Mike Wilcox — May 2010
The history of HTML to HTML5 and how it evolved via the browser wars and standards bodies
- Economics 2.0
By Dion Hinchcliffe — Apr 2010
The available set of slides from Dion’s talk at Club AJAX: Open APIs: How They Are Revolutionizing RIA and the Web. Also see the video
- Exciting JavaScript Part II
By Eugene Lazutkin — Feb 2010
Eugene continues his talk on what is so unique about JavaScript: flexible objects, functions as 1st-class values, function literals, dynamic code generations, and so on, and how these abilities allow us to use them to use advanced programming techniques and idioms: DSLs, FP, AOP, OOP, and so on.
- Exciting JavaScript Part I
By Eugene Lazutkin — Feb 2010
Eugene talks on what is so unique about JavaScript: flexible objects, functions as 1st-class values, function literals, dynamic code generations, and so on, and how these abilities allow us to use them to use advanced programming techniques and idioms: DSLs, FP, AOP, OOP, and so on.
- CRUD with Dojo
By Eugene Lazutkin — Dec 2009
CRUD (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Create,_read,_update_and_delete) is the
bread and butter of many IT applications. We will review what Dojo has to
offer in this department: form widgets, client-side validation, form UI
orchestration, and so on. - Flash and the DOM
By Mike Wilcox — Oct 2009
The following was Mike’s presentation from Dallas
on how Flash works with browsers, different embed techniques, and Flash JavaScript communication. - That’s Not Flash?
By Mike Wilcox — Oct 2009
An overview of DojoX GFX and DojoX Drawing, and the underlying technology that uses SVG and VML to provide vector-based graphics cross-browser without the use of Flash.
- The JavaScript Programming Primer
By Mike Wilcox — Feb 2009
A JavaScript language overview, covering the basics of objects, arrays and functions, then getting more advanced with scope, context and closures.
- AJAX Basics Server Communication
By Mike Wilcox — Jan 2009
Mike talks on the basics of AJAX and the different server communication techniques, like XHR, JSONP, and iFrame. He also shows some of the difficulties in attempting domain communication.



