By producing a popular RIA widget you can distribute your code to millions of users practically overnight. Most widgets are designed to gather data from the web and then present that data to the user. In order to enable this functionality, Google Gadgets for example support a rich programming model based on based on JavaScript and the Gadgets' API. Unfortunately, rich platforms tend to lead to programming errors and security issues. The users of a poorly written RIA widget can have their online accounts breached, web site passwords compromised, local computer data stolen, and even lose control of their computer. This presentation, via code snippets, flow diagrams, and other means, discusses how to write an RIA widget that avoids these pitfalls.

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Speaker Bio: Neil Smithline's main focus has been in optimizing the software life cycle from a product's initial concept through its retirement. This has included tools that affect development, programming techniques, software patterns, development processes, developer training, internal and external. For the past nine years he has directed these efforts almost exclusively to application security. He was the BEA Security Architect for over eight years. In this position Smithline co-designed the security framework for WebLogic Server that is now incorporated into most BEA products and becoming part of many Oracle products. During his tenure at BEA, he had the opportunity to interact with hundreds of customers; helping them develop their security architecture, processes, and strategies. He is currently providing security architecture consulting at OneStopAppSecurity.com.

Conference Faculty - A Who's Who of AJAX Technology Rock Stars!
AJAXWorld RIA Conference & Expo faculty alumni include such notable speakers as: Brad Abrams (Microsoft), Danny Allan (Watchfire), Jean-Francois Arcand (Sun Microsystems), Roland Barcia (IBM), Jeffrey Barr (Amazon), Robb Beal (Lazslo Systems), Sumeer Bhola (IBM), Robert Boedigheimer (The Schwan Food Company), David Boloker (IBM), Jeff Brown (G2One), Shane Bryzak (JBoss), Bob Buffone (Nexaweb), Kurt Cagle, Kord Campbell (Splunk), Max Carlson (Lazslo Systems), Marco Cassario (Adobe), Andre Charland (Nitobi), William Cava (Ektron), Frank Cohen (PushToTest), Lauren Cooney (IBM), Rod Cope (OpenLogic), Douglas Crockford (Yahoo), Jnan Dash (Curl), Andy Denmark (TripIt), Andrew Donoho (IBM), Jon Doyle (CommuniGate Systems), Andreas Ecker (1&1 Internet AG), Yakov Fain (Farata Systems), John Fallows (Kaazing), Jon Ferraiola (OpenAjax Alliance), Giuseppe Ferrigno (MomentumSI), Lou Fox (Blue Wolf), Anthony Franco (EffectiveUI), John Fronckowiak (IDC Consulting), Michael Galpin (eBay), Andrea Gazzaniga (Funambol), Evan Gerber (Molecular), Joshua Gertzen (ThinWire), Becky Gibson (IBM), Michael Girouard (Magnani Caruso Dutto), Paul Giurata (Catalyst Resources), Ted Goddard (ICEsoft), Sue Googe (Edream Solutions), Jeremy Grelle (SpringSource), Mike Grushin (SharpStyle Labs), Arun Gupta (Sun Microsystems), Andi Gutmans (Zend), Kevin Hakman (Aptana), Bert Halstead (Curl), James Harmon (Object Training Group), Jeff Haynie (Appcelerator), Mark Heid (IBM), Christian Heilmann (Yahoo), Billy Hoffman (HP), Kevin Hoffman, Kingsley Idehen (OpenLink Software), Jonas Jacobi (Kaazing), Dietrich Kappe (Pathfinder), Chris Keene (Wavemaker), Renat Khasanshyn (Apatar), Scott Kirkwood (MomentumSI), Peter Kirwan (Webmetrics), John Krahulec (ConceptSolutions), Senthil Krishnapillai (Sybase iAnywhere), Steve Maryka (ICEsoft), Mark McIlvane (Velocent Systems), Eric Miraglia (Yahoo), Stewart Nickolas (IBM), Peter Nickolov (3Tera), Emil Ong (Caucho Technology), Mike Padilla (Vanguard), Sriram Padmanabhan (IBM), Guy Peled (Gizmox), Adam Peller (IBM); Olivier Poupeney (DreamFace Interactive), Hooman Radfar (Clearspring), David Rapperport (Quest Diagnostics), Scott Regan (Sonoa Systems), Mark Ric (Kaazing), Asaf Saar (SAP Labs), Chris Schalk (Google), David Schlesinger (ACCESS), Joe Stagner (Microsoft), Jeff Tapper (Digital Primates IT Consulting Services), Shashank Tiwari (Saven Technologies), Ian Tomlin (NDMC), Lars Trieloff (Day Software), Rob Tweed (M/Gateway Developments), Coach Wei (Nexaweb), Matthias Wessendorf (Oracle), Chris Williams (Aptana), Dev Worah (Virtusa).

Sponsors and Exhibitors
SYS-CON's AJAXWorld RIA Conference & Expo events are sponsored by the world's leading AJAX technology providers, including: 3Tera, Adobe, AJAX Matters, Amazon.com, Appcelerator, Apress, Backbase, Bindows, ComponentArt, Conference Guru, Cynergy Systems, DreamFace Interactive, Dynamic Toolbar, Etelos, Extension Media, Farata Systems, Flash Goddess, froglogic, GoingToMeet.com, Google, Helmi Technologies, IBM, ICEsoft, ILOG, Infragistics, IT Mill, ITtoolbar, JackBe, JetBrains, Kaazing, Kapow Technologies, Krugle, Lazslo Systems, Lightstreamer, M/Gateway Developers, Methods & Tools, Microsoft, Nexaweb, OASIS, OpenSpot, OpSource, Oracle, Parasoft, Passport Corporation, PushToTest, qoodxoo, Quasar Technologies, Rearden Commerce, Servoy, SmartClient/ Isomorphic Software, SnapLogic, Sun Microsystems, Tele Atlas, telerik, The Thomson Corporation, ThinWire, TIBCO Software, TileStack, Universal Mind, Vertex Logic, Visible Measures, Visual WebGui, Web Spiders, Webtide and Zapatec.

Sponsorship and Exhibit Opportunities Offered on a First-Come First-Served Basis. To inquire about sponsorship and exhibit opportunities please contact Carmen Gonzalez at 201-802-3021 or by email at events(at)sys-con.com. Currently, a limited number of sponsorship and exhibition packages with multiple sponsorship discounts are available for the following international events:

The Most Distinguished AJAX Faculty at the Upcoming
October 20-22, 2008 Conference San Jose, CA
SYS-CON’s upcoming “6^th International AJAXWorld RIA Conference & Expo” faculty includes such distinguished speakers as: Brad Abrams (Mcirosoft), Christopher Allen (iPhoneWebDev.com), Jeffrey Barr (Amazon), David Boloker (IBM), Max Carlson (Openlaszlo.org), William Cava (Ektron), Eric Chiu (imservice), Douglas Crockford (Yahoo), Jnan Dash (Curl), Andy Denmark (TripIt), Andrew Donoho (IBM), Jon Doyle (CommuniGate Systems), John Fallows (Kaazing), Jon Ferraiolo (IBM), John Fronckowiak (IDC Consulting), Michael Galpin (eBay), Evan Gerber (Molecular), Michael Girouard (Magani Caruso Dutton), Paul Giurata (Catalyst Resources), Sue Googe (Edream Solutions), Laurie Gray (OneSpring), Jeremy Grelle (SpringSource), Arun Gupta (Sun Microsystems), Scott Guthrie (Microsoft), Thomas Heute (Red Hat), Michael Ho (Quasidea Developments), Billy Hoffman (HP), Kingsley Idehen (OpenLink Software), Jonas Jacobi (Kaazing), Christophe Jolif (ILOG), Dietrick Kappe (Pathfinder), Yehuda Katz (EngineYard), Chris Keene (Wavemaker), Howard Kiewe (Info-Tech Research Group), David Knight (WebEx Communications, a Division of Cisco), Nate Koechley (Yahoo), John Krahulec (Bizwhazee), Chris Laffra (IBM), Kevin Lynch (Adobe), Mark Meeker (Orbitz Worldwide), Eric Miraglia (Yahoo), Greg Murray (Sun Microsystems), Adam Polansky (Travelocity), Tatiana Nasser Rafique (SS & C Technologies), John Resig (Mozilla), Rakesh Saha (Oracle), Chris Schalk (Google), Bill Scott (Yahoo), Ian Shelby (Gen X Design), Karthik Shyamsunder (VeriSign), Neil Smithline (OneStopAppSecurity.com), Rossen Stoyanchev (SpringSource), Peter Svensson (Nethouse AB), Nicholas Thomas (Finicity), Rob Tweed (M/Gateway) and Coach Wei (Nexaweb).