Welcome Alexei White & Andre Charland

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

This week, we're delighted to have Alexei White & Andre Charland helping to answer questions about the new book Enterprise AJAX: Strategies for Building High Performance Web Applications.

The promotion starts Tuesday, July 23rd 2007 and will end on Friday, July 27th 2007.

We'll be selecting four random posters in this forum to win a free copy of the book provided by the publisher, Prentice Hall.

Please see the Book Promotion page to ensure your best chances at winning!

Posts in this welcome thread are not eligible for the drawing.
[ July 23, 2007: Message edited by: David O'Meara ]

[Tony Alicea]

A third author of the book is Dave Johnson. "Dave is the co-founder and CTO of Nitobi Software, a Vancouver-based AJAX component vendor and consulting firm."

I mention this, because I have used Ajax components from Nitobi and they are first class. "Industrial strength" and robust. And as if that was not enough, these components are easy (at least for an experienced developer), to integrate in your application.

I am ordering the book now.

Welcome, Alexei & Andre!

[Jeanne Boyarsky]

Originally posted by Tony Alicea:
A third author of the book is Dave Johnson. "Dave is the co-founder and CTO of Nitobi Software, a Vancouver-based AJAX component vendor and consulting firm."

Right. Alexei & Andre will be here with us. I went back and forth on whether to include Dave in the "welcome."

On one hand, he is the first author listed on Amazon. On the other hand, he isn't planning to be here at JavaRanch. Tony: Your post cleared this up nicely!

[Keith Flo]

I'd love to take a look at a sample chapter from the book ... Is one available online someplace? The web site for the book listed on Safari (enterpriseajax.com) is unavailable right now.

kf

[Alexei White]

Hey everybody!

I think Dave was having trouble creating an account on JavaRanch because it thinks 'dave johnson' is a fake name or some such thing. He's going to be swinging by under a pseudonym as a result.

For the sample chapter go here: http://safari.oreilly.com/9780132242066

www.enterpriseajax.com is coming up online soon. The DNS is being a bit slow!

See you all online today and over the next few days. My particular area of expertise is JavaScript/DHTML/CSS/XMLHttp/Design patterns/Usability/UI design/frameworks and the like. Feel free to ping me. I'll also be digging around these forums to see where I can help out.
[ July 24, 2007: Message edited by: Alexei White ]

[Vijay aRaghavan]

[Please ask questions in a new topic. I have take the question body and moved it to its own post.]
[ July 24, 2007: Message edited by: Bear Bibeault ]

[Bear Bibeault]

Originally posted by Alexei White:

I think Dave was having trouble creating an account on JavaRanch because it thinks 'dave johnson' is a fake name or some such thing. He's going to be swinging by under a pseudonym as a result.

More likely the name was already taken, When he gets an account set up, let me know what the account # is and I'll see what I can do to adjust it accordingly.

Note also that you've been promoted to "author" and I've given you access to the Author's Corral forum.
[ July 24, 2007: Message edited by: Bear Bibeault ]

[Andre Charland]

Hi All!

Glad to be here and looking forward to some great discussions I'll do my best to answer any and all questions but my expertise is definitely in Usability, User Experience, Business Case and Patterns. Thanks!

Andre

[Bear Bibeault]

Hi Andre, I've also granted you author status and access to the Author's Corral forum.