Ext @ The Ajax Experience [Archive]

RWaters

4 Jun 2007, 8:58 PM

My proposal was approved and I will be giving an Ext presentation at "The Ajax Experience" coming up July 25-27th in San Fran. :)

If anyone is going to be at the conference (or the San Francisco area) around that time and would like to meet up please drop me a line. I did attend the conference last year and can say that I found it very technical and informative, and I would definitely recommend it to others.

For more info on the Ext presentation or the conference in general check out the session abstract on the conference site: http://ajaxexperience.techtarget.com/west/html/sessions.html#RWatersExt

jack.slocum

5 Jun 2007, 1:21 AM

I am looking forward to it Rich! Maybe we can get some more Ext'ers out there and get together for at least some drinks after!? :)

Animal

5 Jun 2007, 2:17 AM

Oh yeah, I'd love to go to San Fransisco again. I lived in Sacramento for a few years, and I really love the Bay Area, and the city.

Sadly, my bosses won't send me.

Drink a bottle of Sierra Nevada porter for me!

manugoel2003

6 Jun 2007, 11:00 AM

I would like to add here that recently people from Intel came to our office and were discussing with us about a project they were keen on making.... and I was supposed to tell them about Ext... with whatever little I know, I discussed it with them and gave a very quick ppt and they were completely amazed by this library.... they were using jquery till now.... not to mention we got the project

jack.slocum

6 Jun 2007, 6:50 PM

Nice Manu. Intel would be a nice addition to the non existent "Who's using" list!

manugoel2003

7 Jun 2007, 3:33 AM

It's a year long deal with an assortment of small projects... i'll keep posting the project links on the forum as they get completed (if i am allowed to, that is)

RWaters

8 Jun 2007, 11:11 AM

Looks like a good slot, no direct competition from other frameworks :)

http://ajaxexperience.techtarget.com/west/html/eventsataglance.html

Animal

8 Jun 2007, 11:30 AM

It's an exciting prospect.

What do you have in mind to impress them with? Do you you have a really whizzy UI to demonstrate?

mdm-adph

8 Jun 2007, 12:25 PM

(Don't forget to mention Domino in there somewhere, too.)

What? Who said that!?

Seriously, though, cool -- you get to meet Douglas Crockford.

schoterson

8 Jun 2007, 1:43 PM

First time poster long time reader. Lame huh? Anyways Jack mentioned the non-existent Who Uses list..Cisco Systems entire Intranet is based on EXTJS as of last week. We started in April with YUI-EXt and last week finished and pushed the EXT changes through. It's amazing what it has allowed us to do. Two of the 4 developers involved with making it available accross the company will be at the Ajax conference in SF. We are looking forward to meeting everyone!

Scott

jack.slocum

8 Jun 2007, 9:29 PM

Animal

8 Jun 2007, 9:58 PM

Well, you need somewhere to house that brain power!

manugoel2003

9 Jun 2007, 7:19 AM

why cant they make it free :(( .... or at least affordable, something like $100 would be nice :D

RWaters

11 Jun 2007, 7:08 AM

What do you have in mind to impress them with? Do you you have a really whizzy UI to demonstrate?
I have been working on an application that has a pretty slick UI, though I'm not sure that I could directly show it. I've been thinking I may just whip up a sample application as to avoid any issues.

Seriously, though, cool -- you get to meet Douglas Crockford. Yeah, I met him there last year along with Brenden Eich, and a few other really big names. Definitely an honor to be able to speak at a conference with so many extremely talanted people.

why cant they make it free .... or at least affordable, something like $100 would be nice
It is a bit pricey, and San Fran certainly isn't cheap... My work luckily pays for a couple conferences of my choosing each year.

@schoterson & jack - we'll definitely have to meet up, once it gets closer I'll see about setting up a day/time for any Ext folk to get together.

Animal

11 Jun 2007, 7:15 AM

You could demo the Ext 2.0 Feed Viewer. That's very impressive.

RWaters

11 Jun 2007, 7:28 AM

You could demo the Ext 2.0 Feed Viewer. That's very impressive.

Wow, it was just posted this morning... It does look quite impressive, and runs very quickly/smoothly.

jepo

11 Jun 2007, 9:59 PM

As a web developer ive embraced EXT with open arms :)
I wish i could make it to that conference but I live in Australia so its a bit of a hike /:)

vishpool

12 Jun 2007, 11:39 AM

Great! I actually put down EXT as one of the desired vendors. Are we planning on releasing 2.0 by then?

I would be up for some drinks sometime...I will be down there for 4 days -- traveling from DC.

JTM

20 Jul 2007, 8:51 AM

This is coming up next week... I'll be among the attendees. Is there a time set up for Ext'ers to get together?

Jason

RWaters

20 Jul 2007, 9:25 AM

Hmm, We haven't set anything yet. I'll be in pretty late on Tuesday night and will be there through Sunday. I think our best bet would either be during the Wednesday night reception or just form our own for Thurs/Friday. I'm open to suggestions for day/time...

cluettr

20 Jul 2007, 10:40 AM

Cisco Systems entire Intranet is based on EXTJS as of last week.

Is that true?

zurik44

20 Jul 2007, 11:00 AM

You can Add Time Warner Cable, somethingJava,LLC & and kiwidaddy, LLC to that list.

Http://timewarnerla.com/support/feedback/
http://beta.kiwidaddy.net
http://somethingJava.com/

Long Live ExtJs!!

jack.slocum

22 Jul 2007, 8:01 AM

zurik, thanks for hunting those down! Did you just run into them?

cluettr

22 Jul 2007, 8:39 AM

It's a pretty big deal when companies use an Open Source product especially when they are customer facing sites/applications. Granted some of these companies may actually be buying a premium support package. If they are not then that can be taken as even more of a compliment. A lot of large companies stay away from Open Source packages and frameworks for a few reasons. Of those reasons the most obvious is that there is no accountability when something breaks. The fact that these major corporations have used the framework says that they trust the quality of the product such that they feel entirely comfortable using it.

The one thing that has become obvious having used it for the past month or so is that it's pretty solid and most of the kinks have been worked out. Every time I have a need to do something (as my project moves forward) Ext seems to have an object or method that takes care of it.

schoterson

24 Jul 2007, 9:51 AM

yes its true that the Cisco intranet is based on EXTJS, the rollout started in late april, its not a mandatory upgrade so not every site or page will be using it but the majority of the tier 1 groups are migrating over to it through the rollout of our 3rd generation intranet templates.

cbetancourt

24 Jul 2007, 7:08 PM

I just got into San Francisco for TAE. Post a meeting location here, if you decide on one.

RWaters

25 Jul 2007, 8:10 AM

Sounds like the reception tonight may be a bit crowded. I'll look around the hotel and try to find a location for thursday night.

RWaters

25 Jul 2007, 8:37 PM

Alright, it doesn't look like there's a whole lot of options within the hotel, so I guess I'll set things for the Grandview Lounge (the same place where the AOL reception was - floor 36). I was thinking directly following the conference tomorrow would probably be the easiest for most... So around 7:10-7:15 PM Thursday in the front bar (to the right when you walk down).

cbetancourt

25 Jul 2007, 8:39 PM

Sounds good.

schoterson

26 Jul 2007, 2:47 PM

good choice Rich. See you there

RWaters

26 Jul 2007, 11:06 PM

Thanks to all that made it! Was nice to meet up with some of the Ext community. Too bad Jack couldn't make it up I know he wanted to be there.... I know he was really busy going from meeting to meeting.

jack.slocum

28 Jul 2007, 4:33 AM

You are right Rich. I would have liked to have made it upstairs Thursday evening. By the time I got out of my last meeting, everyone was gone. :(

I did get a chance to meet a lot of people though, and I would like to thank everyone who came!

cbetancourt

28 Jul 2007, 8:35 AM

Here are some pictures from this week's event.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/theajaxexperience2007/

manugoel2003

28 Jul 2007, 9:22 AM

The pics are nice.... I miss the event all the more now :(

jack.slocum

28 Jul 2007, 4:22 PM

The pics turned out great Claude. Thanks for sharing.

JTM

1 Aug 2007, 8:16 AM

Does anyone know if the presentations and/or videos from this event are online? All I could find were last year's:

http://ajaxexperience.techtarget.com/resources/index.html

Jason

cbetancourt

1 Aug 2007, 8:19 AM

2007 Presentations are here (http://ajaxexperience.techtarget.com/west/html/slides.html).

zurik44

13 Sep 2007, 3:42 PM

Jack,

No, I built kiwidaddy & I use to work for timewarner cable and I built that too :) I have been using your stuff all over the place. It has become my favorite skill, I even made a name for it. "Exting" as in I was Exting the page.

Anyways, I'm a dork.. what can I say.

Glad you liked the links .. Maybe when kiwidaddy is done (Sept 15th) you could put it on the homepage for all to see *winks*

zurik, thanks for hunting those down! Did you just run into them?