Planning an Ajax Boot Camp

Locations to be determined by your input

I have been helping people work with Ajax applications since Ajax has become popular. On all of the forums I post on and the emails I receive, the same mistakes appear over and over again that bring developer's applications to a halt. My goal was to create a course that will teach any serverside developer how to code a maintainable and scalable Ajax solution. A lot of tutorials out there that developers are using are full of bad practices.

Things that developers always do not think of is what is the consequences of not using caching on the client, what happens if I poll the server, what happens with session, and what causes that memory leak? I see people using too much business logic on the client and I see others not using enough. Others are using the XMLHttpRequest object wrong which does not show up under normal use, but get a user with an itchy trigger finger and it is all over. There are tons of things this camp will cover and I plan on posting the course outline in the near future.

The Ajax Boot Camp will be two days full of lectures and hands on programming. Locations of the camps are still currently being determined. If you would like to see us come to your part of the United States, add a comment or send me an email to askEric@pascarello.com. I know people asked me when I am coming to your area to talk; this is your chance to get me there!

Eric Pascarello
Coauthor of Ajax In Action
Moderator of HTML/JavaScript at www.JavaRanch.com
Author of: JavaScript: Your Visual Blueprint for Building Dynamic Web Pages