What’s the Open Web? Why does the Open Web Matter? Contest - Win Three Open Web Vancouver 2008 Tickets

On April 14+15 the Open Web Vancouver 2008 conference will showcase open web technologies, communities and culture, and evangelize the Open Web to developers, designers, organizers and the community at large.

What’s the Open Web? Good question. Tell us “What’s the Open Web and Why It Matters” and win a free two-day Open Web Vancouver 2008 conference pass.

How the contest works: Write a posting answering the two questions:

• What’s the Open Web?
• Why does the Open Web matter? Why is the Open Web important?

That’s it. Publish your posting on your site, blog or elsewhere and than tell us about it to get short-listed for the free two-day Open Web Vancouver 2008 conferece pass. Choices include:

• Add a comment with a link to your “What’s the Open Web?” posting to this posting.
• Add a comment with a link to your “What’s the Open Web?” posting to the Open Web Vancovuer 2008 Upcoming event listing.
• Add a wall posting with a link to your “What’s the Open Web?” posting to the Open Web Vancouver 2008 Facebook event page.
• Send a tweet (@openweb200 with a link to your “What’s the Open Web?” posting to the Open Web Vancouver 2008 Twitter.

Not interested in Open Web? As an alternative tell us “What’s Web 3.0 / Microformats / the Semantic Web / the Giant Global Graph and why it all matters”.

Questions? Comments? Send them along to the Vancouver Ajax & Web 2.0 (3.0) Developer Forum/Mailing List. Thanks!

Enterprise Ajax by Vancouverites Dave Johnson, Alexei White and Andre Charland (Nitobi)

At the last Nitobi Hack Day I got a free copy of “Enterprise Ajax: Strategies for Building High Performance Web Application” written by Vancouverites Dave Johnson, Alexei White and Andre Charland - all of Team Nitobi.

The book has been published by Prentice Hall (496 pages, ISBN: 0-13-224206-0) and is available in bookstores across the nation since July 2007 (and soon at the Vancouver Public Library - I will donate my copy).

The table of contents includes:

Q & A with CSS Zen Master Dave Shea on Microformats, Silverlight, Web Directions North 2008, and More (Part II)

Welcome back to episode two of the Q&A with CSS Zen Master and Web Directions North 2008 organizer Dave Shea.

Friends of Nitobi Meetup - Dec/11 @ Shebeen - Free Beer

Vancouverite Brian LeRoux invites friends of Nitobi to free beer at the Shebeen Whisky House in Gastown. Find out more details in Brian LeRoux’s Upcoming.org event listing.

Vancouver Ajax & Web 2.0 Forum/Mailing List Welcomes 100th Member

The Vancouver Ajax & Web 2.0 Forum/Mailing List started this summer welcomes its 100th member. The latest discussions and announcements include:

• Web Direction North 2008 (WDN0 - Vancouver Web Design & Dev Conference
• Getting Started w/ Firefox Addon/Extension Development
• OpenSocial JavaScript API Site, Docs and Examples Now Live
• Facebook Application Demo Q&As - Mixx, Hockey Pool, Are You Normal? and More

You’re invited to join us.

Free Full-Day Adobe Flex, Air & Rich Internet Apps Workshop - Aug/30 - Reg. Required

Vancouverite Duane Nickull (Adobe) wrote in that as a follow-up to the Vancouver Air Camp Bus Tour stop Adobe will organize a free full-day workshop covering Flex, Air, Ajax and more.

Note that registration is required and that seating is limited to 150 people.

Speakers for the Vancouver Flex Camp will include Andre Charland
(Nitobi), Ryan Stewart (Adobe, Seattle), Ross Ladell (Blast Radius) and others.

vanajax.com - Domain Mania - Easy Access to Ajax & Web 2.0 Forum, Blog, Job Board & More

For easy access you can now use the following shortcuts:

• vanajax.com redirects to the Vancouver Ajax & Web 2.0 Developers Group site.
• forum.vanajax.com redirects to the Google discussion group.
• jobs.vanajax.com redirects to the Joint Job Board.
• fb.vanajax.com redirects to the Ajax & Web 2.0 Facebook group.

Enjoy.

Connect with Ajax & Web 2.0 Developers on Facebook - New Facebook Vancouver Ajax & Web 2.0 Group

Connect with fellow Vancouver Ajax & Web 2.0 developers on Facebook by joining the new Vancouver Ajax & Web 2.0 Developers group.

Why Facebook? Why another Vancouver Ajax & Web 2.0 group?

Facebook is the #1 and most popular web site in Canada beating out Google, Yahoo, and everyone else and the Vancouver Facebook network lists 359,833 members. Thus, it’s kind of natural to tap into Facebook to spread the word about Ajax & Web 2.0 in Vancouver and let Vancouverites connect to discuss, share and extend their knowledge on all things Ajax, Atom, Rest, Widgets, Canvas, UserScripts, Microformats, OpenID, Gears and more.

Again if you’re on Facebook and interested in Ajax & Web 2.0 topics why not connect with fellow Vancouver Ajax & Web 2.0 developers.

Vancouver Ajax & Web 2.0 Job Board Now Live

Looking for Ajax & Web 2.0 talent in & around Vancouver? Looking for Ajax & Web 2.0 jobs or gigs?

The Joint Vancouver Job Board now welcomes Ajax & Web 2.0 job postings and welcomes the Vancouver Ajax & Web 2.0 Developers Group to its family.

The service is free but please follow our posting guidelines. In a nutshell: Please post job openings for the Greater Vancouver Region only, tell us about your company and write specific subject lines (such as Web Producer @ Bauhaus Studio).

Free Vancouver Ruby & Rails Meetup - Aug/7 @ The Network Hub

Interested in learning more about Ruby & Rails and meeting up with local Rubyists?

Peter Armstrong - of Flexible Rails fame - will organize a new series of Ruby & Rails meetups in Vancouver starting this August.

Sign-up at the new Ruby & Rails Meetup Group and stay tuned for updates.

Interested in more Ruby & Rails news, events & jobs in and around Vancouver? Stop at the new Vancouver Ruby & Rails Central blog.