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Presentation: "Bespin: Social Code Editing on the Web"
Time:
Wednesday 11:45 - 12:45
Location:
Olympic
Abstract: Many of us feel that the Web platform has enormous potential over the
next few years to become *the* dominant application development
platform. While some would argue that it already is, there are still
large classes of applications for which browsers appear to be unsuited.
Earlier this year, a team at Mozilla Labs set out to blur the supposed
boundaries separating the Web from "desktop" platforms; a result of
this effort is Bespin, a web-based code editor. By using the
relatively new "canvas" element (introduced by Safari, standardized by
the WHATWG, and now available in nearly every modern browser) Bespin
creates its own text editing component that performs extremely well--
much better than anything before seen in the browser while offering
syntax highlighting and other key features expected of modern code
editors.
But Bespin is more than a technology demo; it ambitions to transform
how we write code by making it fundamentally social and much more
productive.
Join Ben and Dion, the founders of Bespin, as they discuss the
project's past, present, and future.
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Ben Galbraith, Ajaxian.com co-founder
Ben Galbraith is the co-director of Developer Tools at Mozilla and the co-founder of Ajaxian.com. Ben has long juggled interests in both business and tech, having written his first computer program at six years old, started his first business at ten, and entered the IT workforce at twelve.
He has delivered hundreds of technical presentations world-wide, produced several technical conferences, and co-authored over a half-dozen books. He has enjoyed a variety of business and technical roles throughout his career, including CEO, CIO, CTO, and Chief Software Architect roles in medical, publishing, media, manufacturing, advertising, and software industries. He lives in Palo Alto with his wife and five children.
Dion Almaer, Ajaxian.com Co-founder
Dion Almaer is the co-founder of Ajaxian.com, the leading source of the Ajax community. For his day job, Dion co-leads a new group at Mozilla focusing on developer tools for the Web, which is something he has been passionate about doing for years, and is excited for the opportunity! Dion has been writing rich web applications from the beginning, and has been a columnist on various topics at ONJava, TheServerSide.com, openxource.com and of course his blog at almaer.com/blog.
He enjoys writing, and speaking at events such as JavaOne, Web 2.0 Expo, Future of Web Apps, Google I/O, JavaPolis, TheServerSide Symposium, and createdThe Ajax Experience . He also participates on the Java Community Process expert groups, and the open source community as a whole.
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