It has come a long, long way since February 2005 when Jesse James Garrett coined the now universally used term for it: the rise and rise of 'AJAX' has been meticulously reflected in the pages of SYS-CON Media's magazines and web sites. We take an end-of-year look at its first 22 months.
February 2005
Garrett, President and a founder of Adaptive Path, writes his seminal essay offering a new approach to Web applications, goes away on vacation, and comes back a week later to a mountain of e-mail from around the world asking for more details about this new way of thinking about the architecture of web applications using certain technologies like CSS, DOM, and XMLHttpRequest.
January 2006
SYS-CON announces that the world's first-ever full One-Day AJAX Seminar, "Real-World AJAX," has already attracted a full complement of sponsors.
February 2006
AJAXWorld Magazine is conceived, just 12 months after the creation of the term "AJAX."
March 2006
"Real-World AJAX," a full One-Day AJAX Seminar, takes place in The Roosevelt Hotel in New York, New York, with speakers such as: the creator of the term 'AJAX," Jesse James Garrett; David Temkin, founder and CTO of Laszlo Systems; and Douglas Crockford, Creator of JSON.
"Real-World AJAX" also offered insights from:
Coach Wei, Chairman, Founder and CTO, Nexaweb
David Boloker, CTO Emerging Technologies, IBM
Douglas Crockford, Architect, Yahoo!
Luis Derechin, CEO and Co-Founder, JackBe
Jesse James Garrett, Creator of the term "AJAX"
Dion Hinchcliffe, Editor-in-Chief, AJAXWorld Magazine
Jonas Jacobi, AJAX Evangelist and Co-Author, Pro JSF and AJAX
John Fallows, AJAX Evangelist and Co-Author, Pro JSF and AJAX
Charles Fiesel, Director, Roundarch
David Temkin, CTO & Founder, Laszlo Systems
Kevin Hakman, Director of Product Marketing, TIBCO
John Crupi, CTO, JackBe
Rob Gonda, Deputy Editor, AJAXWorld Magazine
Jim Phelan, VP of Development, Stream 57
April 2006
"Real-World AJAX" reconvenes, this time on the West coast, to deliver a One-Day AJAX Seminar, with a speakers such as the CTO of Laszlo Systems and Creator of JSON, "Real-World AJAX" offers insights from:
Adam Bosworth, VP of Engineering, Google
Dr Eric Miraglia, Yahoo!, Presentation Platform Team
Paul Rademacher, Creator of HousingMaps.com, Google
Jouk Pleiter, Co-Founder & CEO of Backbase
Shanku Niyogi, User Experience Guru, Microsoft UI Framework and Services
Alex Russell, President, Dojo Foundation
Eric Pascarello, Co-author of the bestselling book Ajax in Action
Dion Hinchcliffe, Editor-in-Chief, Web 2.0 Journal
David Temkin,CTO & Founder, Laszlo Systems
Sahil Malik, Tech Evangelist, telerik
Kevin Hakman, Director of Product Marketing, TIBCO
Luis Derechin, CEO and Co-Founder, JackBe
Dion Hinchcliffe, Editor-in-Chief, AjaxWorld Magazine
Jonas Jacobi, AJAX Evangelist and Co-Author, "Pro JSF and AJAX"
John Fallows, AJAX Evangelist and Co-Author, "Pro JSF and AJAX"
Charles Fiesel, Director, Roundarch
David Temkin, CTO & Founder, Laszlo Systems
John Crupi, CTO, JackBe
Rob Gonda, Deputy Editor, AJAXWorld Magazine
Jim Phelan, VP of Development, Stream 57
October 2006
SYS-CON Events stages AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2006, in Silicon Valley - the world's biggest full-fledged AJAX-specific conference. The 85 speakers included some of the top domain experts in the world…
Adam Sah - Architect of Google Gadgets Ajit Jaokar - Chair of Oxford University's Next-Generation Mobile Applications panel Ajay Ramachandran - CTO and VP of Raining Data's XML-Centric Applications and Platforms group Alan Lewis - Technical Evangelist, eBay Developers Program Alex Russell & Dylan Schiemann - Co-Founders, Dojo Foundation Alex Bunardzic - Developer, Rails Andrew C. Oliver - Software Developer Ash Parikh - Director of Development & Technology, Raining Data Corporation Bill Scott - Co-Founder of Rico, AJAX Evangelist of Yahoo! Billy Hoffman - Lead Security Researcher for SPI Dynamics Bob Buffone - Chief Architect, Nexaweb Technologies Bob Zurek - Director of Advanced Technologies, IBM Information Integration Solutions Charles Fiesel - Leader, RIA Practice at Roundarch Christophe Coenraets - Sr. Technical Evangelist, Adobe Coach Wei - Founder & CTO, Nexaweb Craig McClanahan - Programmer and original author of the Apache Struts framework for building Web applications Dan Theurer - Technical evangelist, Yahoo! Web services Dave Hanley - Director of Product Management for Rhapsody Web Services Dave Hoover - Lead Agile Practices Consultant at Obtiva Corp and author of the upcoming "Acceptance Testing Rails" Dave Johnson - Co-Founder & CTO of eBusiness Applications Dave Wolf - VP of Consulting, Cynergy Systems David Boloker - CTO, Emerging Internet Technologies, IBM David McFarlane - Chief Operating Officer (COO) at IM Logic, Inc David Temkin - Founder & CTO, Laszlo Systems David Van Couvering - Committer for Apache Derby; member of the Apache DB PMC Dion Hinchcliffe - Editor-in-Chief, AJAXWorld Magazine Douglas Crockford - Creator of JSON Dror Matalon - Founder of Zapatec Eric Hodel - Programmer and Systems Administrator, The Robot Co-op Eric Pascarello - Co-author of Ajax in Action Florian von Kurnatowski - Director of Technical Services, Scalix Francois Orsini - Sr. Staff Engineer, Database Technology Group, Sun Greg Murray - Servlet 2.5 Specification Lead, now the AJAX architect for Sun Hakon Wium Lie - Co-Inventor of CSS Inderjeet Singh - Sr. Staff Engineer with Sun; architect for Java BluePrints James Adam- Developer of Rails Engines, Author of "Rails Plugins" James Ward - Technical Evangelist for Flex at Adobe Jeremy Chone - Director, Product Management & Strategy, Enterprise & Developer Solutions Business Unit, Adobe Jesse James Garrett - Father of the term "AJAX" Jim Phelan - Chief Architect, Stream57 Jochen Krause - CEO, Innoopract; Member of the Eclipse Board of Directors Joe Orbman - Chief Architect, Midnight Coders Joe O'Brien- Co-founder of EdgeCase, LLC John Bennett - Adobe Consulting, Eastern Region John Crupi - CTO, JackBe John Fallows - Former lead developer for Oracle ADF Faces Rich Client; Co-author of "Pro JSF and AJAX" John F. Andrews - President, Evans Data Corporation Jon Ferraiolo - Web architect within IBMs Emerging Technologies Group Jonas Jacobi - Java EE Technology Evangelist at Oracle, Co-author of "Pro JSF and AJAX" Joshua Gertzen - Primary architect, ThinWire Ajax Framework Jouk Pleiter - Co-Founder & CEO, Backbase Juho Rishu - Founder of Helmi Technologies Kevin Hakman - Co-Founder, TIBCO General Interface Kurt Cagle - Author & software developer Laurence Moroney - Author of Foundations of Atlas Louenas Hamdi - SAP Research Team, SAP Labs Luis Polanco - Senior Product Manager for Apollo at Adobe Luke Birdeau - Lead Software Engineer for TIBCO General Interface Matt Quinn - Heads Product Strategy and Product Management, TIBCO Software Mark Pillar - TheMidnightCoders with Joe Orbman Martin Frid-Nielsen - CEO & Founder, SoonR Michael Buffington - Ruby on Rails + AJAX Mike Nimer - Mike Nimer is a partner, Nimer and Associates Milos Glisic - Senior Developer, ComponentArt Nate Koechley - One of the first Web developers at Yahoo! Nathan Jakubiak - Software Team Leader, Parasoft Neil Sequiera - Venture Capitalist, General Catalyst Partners Patrick Grady - Founder, Chairman, and CEO of Rearden Commerce Paul Rademacher - Creator of HousingMaps.com (Google) Rama Gurram - Research Scientist, SAP Labs Riccardo La Rosa - Principal Consultant, Engineering, Molecular Rob Rusher - Certified Flex 2 instructor, one of only a few in the world Robby Russell- Founded PLANET ARGON Robert Smik - Director of solutions engineering of Raining Data's XML-Centric Applications and Platforms group Robert Brewin - Co-CTO Software Group, Sun Ryan Davis - Founding Member of Seattle Ruby Brigade Sahil Malik - Evangelist, telerik Samir Raiyani- Director of Homeland Security Research, SAP Labs Samisa Abeysinghe - Architect of the core of the Apache Axis2/C Web services engine Scott Isaacs - Architect, Microsoft Windows Live; Father of DHTML Shanku Niyogi - Product Unit Manager of the UiFX Team, Microsoft Stephen Baker - Creator and Lead Developer of R-Spec Steve Mulder - Principal Consultant in user experience at Molecular Tony Parisi - Co-Creator of Virtual Reality Modeling Language (VRML) Zeki Mokhtarzada - Co-Founder & CTO, Freewebs.com
About RIA News Desk Ever since Google popularized a smarter, more responsive and interactive Web experience by using AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript + XML) for its Google Maps & Gmail applications, SYS-CON's RIA News Desk has been covering every aspect of Rich Internet Applications and those creating and deploying them. If you have breaking RIA news, please send it to RIA@sys-con.com to share your product and company news coverage with AJAXWorld readers.
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revamped its mail service
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dynamic html technologies
allow a page to change
content without a reload.
So Yahoo!'s mail
pageviews are down and
that's going to have an
impact on Yahoo!'s page
view growth.
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According to Sean Walsh,
President and CEO of
Skyway Software, 'Our
Skyway Community is
thriving and our members
are very talented. We
truly look forward to
their RIAs submittals and
Skyway Builder extensions
and are excited that all
of the contributions will
benefit the entire Skyway 
From Application
Virtualization to Xen, a
round-up of the
virtualization themes &
topics being discussed in
NYC June 23-24, 2008 by
the world-class speaker
faculty at the 3rd
International
Virtualization Conference
& Expo being held by
SYS-CON Events in The
Roosevelt Hotel, in
midtown 
Weitzner brings 30 years
of publishing experience
to ZDE, starting in
editorial at Hearst
Business Communications
and moving over to the
business side at CMP
Media. As CMP Media COO
and CEO, he transformed
the company from a
print-centric publisher
focused on multiple
markets to a tech
You remember back in the
early days of video games
when there wasn't enough
capacity on the carts
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