Designing a state of the art user interface (UI) in a very visual application that is managing a lot of elements posed significant challenge due to the nature of the application: virtualizing and running entire data centers through a browser. With thousands of objects to coordinate the UI architecture proved as critical as the implementation details.

Attendees will get a full case study on building application UI with AJAX – from architecture decisions, tool choice, and design implementation to performance testing procedures for multiple http calls per page refresh; rich client-like user interactions; security testing; and dealing with support of different browser versions.

After investigating different approached to the UI, 3Tera came to the conclusion that AJAX is the only technology that allows to build utility computing in a browse. Atendees will hear a highly compelling insight on the process of developing functionally rich front end to a very complex system. The presentation also addresses business and IT concerns, and will educate the audience with real-world examples of how companies are already operating and leveraging utility computing in a browser and benefiting from the AJAX based UI to deliver, provision and scale Web applications with ease.

Speaker Bio: Peter is a recognized expert in scalable infrastructure technologies including operating systems, networks and storage. One of the 3Tera founders, he has unique experience in delivering successfully new types of products in a fast-paced startup environment. Peter is the architect of the core technology behind 3Tera's award winning AppLogic grid operating system that enables utility computing for SaaS and Web 2.0 services. He is a serial entrepreneur who has founded four technology companies.

Prior to 3Tera, he founded Z-force, a storage networking company that pioneered file switching and NAS aggregation and was named one of Network World's "Top 10 Startups to Watch"; and Object Dynamics, a software company providing network infrastructure software.

In the last 20 years Peter has authored 24 patents and has over 30 innovations in the areas of operating systems, multithreading, kernel mode and real-time software, network protocols, file systems and computing resource aggregation.

• Danny Allan, Watchfire - Director of Security Research
• Jean-Francois Arcand, Sun - GlassFish Technical Lead
• Roland Barcia, IBM - Lead Web 2.0 Architect for IBM Software Services
• Robb Beal, Laszlo Systems - Principal Systems Engineer
• Sumeer Bhola, IBM - Research Staff member, T.J. Watson Research Center
• Robert Boedigheimer, Schwans Shared Services - Web Designer & Developer
• David Boloker, IBM - CTO for Emerging Internet Technologies
• Jeff Brown, G2One - Director of North American Operations
• Shane Bryzak, JBoss/Red Hat - Senior Software Engineer
• Bob Buffone, Nexaweb - Chief Architect, Apache XAP Project committer
• Kurt Cagle, XForms.org - Author & Webmaster
• Marco Casario, Comtaste - Founder & Chief Executive Officer
• Kord Campbell, Splunk - Chief Evangelist
• Andre Charland, Nitobi - Co-Founder & CEO
• Lauren Cooney, IBM - Information Management CTO Office
  
• Rod Cope, OpenLogic - CTO & Founder
• Douglas Crockford, Yahoo! - Creator of the JSON data interchange format
• Andreas Ecker, 1&1 Internet AG - Project Lead and Co-Creator of qooxdoo
• Jon Ferraiolo, OpenAjax Alliance - Operations Manager
• Giuseppe Ferrigno, IASA - Director of the International Association of Software Architects
• Lou Fox, Bluewolf- CTO 
• Anthony Franco, EffectiveUI - President
• Andrea Gazzaniga, Funambol - Software Development Manager
• Joshua Gertzen, TrueCode - Principal Architect, ThinWire 
  
• Becky Gibson, IBM - Web Accessibility Architect, Emerging Technologies Group
• Dan Gisolfi, IBM - Mashup Enabler
• Paul Giurata, Catalyst Resources - Managing Partner
• Ted Goddard, ICEsoft - Senior Architect, ICEfaces AJAX framework
• Sue Googe, Northrup Grumman - UI Architect
• Mike Grushin, SharpStyle Labs - Chief Technology Officer
• Arun Gupta, Sun - Technology Evangelist for Web Services & Web 2.0
• Andi Gutmans, Zend - CTO
• Kevin Hakman, Aptana - Director of Product Marketing  
• Bert Halstead, Curl - Chief Architect
• James Harmon, Object Training Group - President & Senior Trainer
• Jeff Haynie, Appcelerator - Co-founder & CEO
• Mark Heid, IBM - Program Director for WebSphere Application Server Marketing
• Christian Heilmann, Yahoo! UK - Front-End Architect
• Kevin Hoffman, iPhone Developer's Journal - Editor-in-Chief
• Jonas Jacobi, Kaazing - Co-Founder & CEO
• Dietrich Kappe, Pathfinder Development - Co-Founder & CTO
  
• Renat Khasanshyn, Apatar - CEO & Main Evangelist
• Scott Kirkwood, MomentumSI - VP of Software Development Services
• Peter Kirwan, Webmetrics - Chief Strategy Officer
• Senthil Krishnapillai, Sybase iAnywhere - Director of Product Management
• Julien Lecomte, Yahoo! - Author of the YUI Browser History Manager and YUI Compressor
• Mark McIlvane, Velocent - President & COO
• Steve Maryka, ICEsoft - Chief Technology Officer
• Ravi Mehrotra, SAP - Vice President of Product Management, CRM
• Eric Miraglia, Yahoo! - Engineering Manager of the YUI Team
• Laurence Moroney, Microsoft - Senior Technology Evangelist
• Stewart Nickolas, IBM - Lead architect of QEDwiki
• Peter Nickolov, 3Tera - CTO & COO
• Emil Ong, Caucho Technology - Chief Evangelist
• Mike Padilla, Vanguard - UX (User eXperience) Manager
• Sriram Padmanabhan, IBM - Leader, Information Management Advanced Technologies
• Guy Peled, Visual WebGui - Chief Technology Officer
• Adam Peller, IBM - Dojo Committer, Advisory Software Engineer
• Greg Pollack, Orlando Ruby Users Group - Organizer
• Olivier Poupeney, DreamFace Interactive - Co-Founder & CEO
• Andrew Powell, Universal Mind - Senior Consultant
• Hooman Radfar, Clearspring Technologies - Founder 
• David Rapperport, Quest Diagnostics - Lead Application Architect, MedPlus
• Scott Regan, Sonoa - Director of Product Management
• Asaf Saar, SAP Labs Israel - Quality Manager and Development Project Lead
• Chris Schalk, Google - Google Developer Advocate
• David Schlesinger, ACCESS - Director of Open Source Technologies
• Ric Smith, Kaazing - Director of Business & Product Strategy
• Joe Stagner, Microsoft - Senior Program Manager, Developer Tools and Platform Group
• Jeff Tapper, Digital Primates - Senior Consultant
• Shashank Tiwari, Saven Technologies - Chief Technologist
• Ian Tomlin, NDMC Ltd - Co-Founder
• Lars Trieloff, Day Software - Product Manager
• Geoff Tudor, Nirvanix - Senior VP of Strategy & Business Development
• Rob Tweed, M/Gateway Developments - Director & Co-Founder
• Coach Wei, Nexaweb - Founder, Chairman, and CTO
• Matthias Wessendorf, Oracle - Software developer, ADF Faces team
• Chris Williams, Aptana - Senior Software Engineer
• Dev Worah, Virtusa - Director of Technology for Financial Services