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Noel Rappin to Speak at Windy City Rails Conference
(September 20, 2008)
Noel’s presentation iPhone Web Development Using Rails will cover the best ways to leverage Rails on the iPhone and help developers leverage Mobile Safari’s new paradigm for web browsing that utilizes the iPhone’s popular touch screen display along with new styles of interactions that include tap, pinch and zoom for bringing content into view. He will also be presenting a session on test driven development.
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Dietrich Kappe to Speak at AjaxWORLD West 2008
(October 20-22, 2008)
Saving Your Investment: Transforming J2EE Applications into Web 2.0 Using GWT
The pressure is on to keep pace with Web 2.0 entrants into the marketplace. Learn to analyze the service profile of your application, and leverage GWT to save you time and money.
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Pathfinder's Dietrich Kappe and Brian Dillard to Speak at The Ajax Experience
(September 29 – October 1, 2008)
Dietrich’s presentation Saving Your Investment: Transforming J2EE Applications into Web 2.0 using GWT discusses the pressures of keeping pace with Web 2.0 entrants into the marketplace. His presentation will cover how to stay competitive, control costs and reduce maintenance using the Google Web Toolkit (GWT).
Brian’s presentation Making Friends with the Browser: Ajax, Back Buttons and Bookmarks will focus on enabling bookmarks and the back button in Ajax applications. Much of his presentation will be based on his experience as the project lead on Really Simple History, a popular open-source Ajax history and bookmarking library.
Dietrich Kappe Contributes to New AJAX Reference
Pathfinder’s Chief Technical Officer Recognized
Chicago, IL (April 16, 2007) Pathfinder CTO added author to his list of professional credentials recently. Dietrich Kappe is a major contributor to Sys-Con Books’ latest technical reference: Real World AJAX: Secrets of the Masters.
AJAX, an acronym for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML, is a development technique for creating interactive web applications. AJAX makes web pages feel more responsive by exchanging data with the server, behind the scenes so the entire web page does not have to be reloaded every time the user requests a change. This increases the page’s interactivity, speed and usability.
Kappe led Pathfinder Development to invest in AJAX and other Rich Internet Application (RIA) technologies as they began to mature several years ago.
“You see these technologies every time you perform a Google search and see the matches display,” Kappe explained, “They open the door to a whole host of real-time web applications like word processors, magnificent search options and help eliminate many of those time wasting page refreshes you see on-line when the user adds a bit of information.”
Kappe contributed a chapter on tuning AJAX applications. “Performance is critical to the success of any web application,” he said, “AJAX applications have a very different behavior than the typical web application- these technologies bring their own set of performance issues.” Kappe is a member of Ajaxian and writes Pathfinder’s Agile AJAX Blog.
About Pathfinder
Pathfinder Development builds software products for enterprises and software vendors. Pathfinder’s approach integrates user experience design with agile development to improve software quality and accelerate development. This approach helps Pathfinder’s clients speed intuitive and reliable software to market. Pathfinder with development centers in Chicago, New York, India and the Philippines. For more information, call 312-372-1058, email info@pathf.com or visit www.pathf.com
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