First Real World Ajax Seminar Slides

If you are one of the 350 people who attended the Real World Ajax Seminar, one of the 15,000 who watched the simulcast, or you just happened to find the video-cast (which I'll link when sys-con publish it), you may find useful to download the slides I used.

Just a quick recap, I started my speech informing that I will not show any UI, I will not speak of frameworks, and I will not add any sales pitches; instead, I will go back to basics and talk about best practices and foundations for developing proper and successful Ajax applications. My high-level presentation applies for any Ajax project you might be working on and does not tie you into any framework or server side language.

An extract from the backbase's description of my presentation

He is providing a lot of best-practices, such as ‘provide the user with immediate feedback’, ‘design for errors’ and ‘keep state on the server’. He explains that this last point is one of the most important points for enterprise Ajax applications, because it introduces security risks: he then primarily refers to business logic. Rob then gives several security guidelines, where he emphasizes that Ajax pretty much works like regular HTML pages.