Profile: Joe Walker

Joe Walker is a developer and consultant working on advanced web development techniques like AJAX.

He recently developed Direct Web Remoting, (DWR) which has become the most popular Ajax toolkit for Java by making browser/server interaction intuitive for web developers.

He currently works through his consultancy, Getahead, which is supplying a growing number of customers with AJAX and advanced web solutions.

Tutorial: My first AJAX application

Tuesday, November 8th, 13.00

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Presentation: AJAX: Next generation websites, an introduction

Thursday, November 10th, 16.00

Track: Technology

AJAX represents the biggest change to the Internet since it's invention 15 years ago. It's sparking huge investment by Google, Microsoft, Yahoo! and many others and altering what is possible on the web.

Find out what's behind the innovation.

Co-presented with Jonathan Downes.

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Links

Getahead: Joe Walker's Blog

CNET News.com: AJAX gives software a fresh look (October 4th, 2005)

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