XTech 2006: “Building Web 2.0” — 16-19 May 2006, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Simon Willison
Yahoo!
Simon Willison works far Yahoo! on the Technology Development team. He is an experienced client- and server-side developer with and maintains a long running technical weblog. He is one of the hackers behind Django, the open-source Python web framework aimed at "web developers on journalism deadlines".
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Ajax day
St. John 2
Simon Willison (Yahoo!)
The Yahoo! User Interface Library is a set of utilities and controls,
written in JavaScript, for building richly interactive web
applications using techniques such as DOM scripting, HTML and Ajax.
Ajax day
St. John 2
Simon Willison (Yahoo!)
Rapid-fire demonstrations of Ajax projects and concepts, chaired by Simon Willison of Yahoo!
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Grand Ballroom
Simon Willison (Yahoo!)
Django is a full-stack Python web framework initially created to handle the challenges posed by a fast-moving newsroom environment. It has gained a strong community following in the ten months since its release as an open-source project.