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    <city>Palo Alto</city>
    <country>USA</country>
    <end-on type="date">2006-08-09</end-on>
    <full-description>With the advent of Ajax, new patterns of interaction have emerged on the web. These patterns inform not just the design &amp; engineering process but also form the vocabulary for the creation of new product features. In this talk, Bill will give you insight in how to best take advantage of the power of Ajax technology for product design through a series of best practices from across the Web. Each best practice is illustrated with lots of real world examples from both inside and outside of Yahoo! The nuances of each approach is discussed in detail with illustrating examples and counter-examples.

Bill Scott is Ajax Evangelist and Design Pattern Curator at Yahoo! where he spreads the goodness of &#194;&#179;rich and sane&#194;&#178; Ajax design. Bill co-founded Rico (&#194;&#173;openrico.org., and for 20 years Bill has designed and created interfaces. His musings can be found at http://looksgoodworkswell.com.

Schedule
7:30 pm

Location
PARC's George E. Pake Auditorium
3333 Coyote Hill Road
Palo Alto, CA </full-description>
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    <short-description>Bill Scott, B&amp;A author and Ajax Evangelist at Yahoo! teaches how to best take advantage of the power of Ajax technology for product design through a series of best practices from across the Web.</short-description>
    <start-on type="date">2006-08-08</start-on>
    <title>BAYCHI: Designing for Ajax</title>
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    <website>http://www.baychi.org/program/</website>
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    <city>Vancouver</city>
    <country>Canada</country>
    <end-on type="date">2007-02-11</end-on>
    <full-description>Put together by designers and developers, for designers and developers, Web Directions North is brought to you by Dave Shea, Derek Featherstone, Maxine Sherrin and John Allsopp. 

Over two days and nights, Web Directions North is packed tight with sessions by renowned, inspiring, entertaining speakers and experts, parties, and more.

Come along and hear Kelly Goto, Andy Clarke, Adrian Holovaty, Douglas Bowman, Dan Cederholm, Joe Clark, Molly Holzschlag, Derek Featherstone, Veerle Pieters, Jeremy Keith and many other present and future web luminaries, covering Ajax and Javascript, CSS, Microformats, mashups, standards based web design and development, accessibility, web app development, XHTML and HTML and more. 

Beginning with an optional day of workshops from some of the web&#226;&#8364;&#8482;s best educators, and rounded off with two optional days of skiing and boarding at Whistler, Web Directions North is 2007&#226;&#8364;&#8482;s web design and development event not to be missed.

Register until December 31 for just $CDN895 (about USD$770), and includes two tight-packed, fully catered days of renowned speakers, an offical reception and closing night party.

Workshops are just $CDN395 (~USD$340) for a full, fully catered day with world experts Andy Clarke and Aaron Gustafson, Derek Featherstone, or Kelly Goto.

For conference attendees and their family, each day at Whistler is just $CDN120 (~USD$100, including transfers too and from Whistler and Vancouver, and lift tickets)</full-description>
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    <region>Canada</region>
    <short-description>Be part of what promises to be one of 2007&#226;&#8364;&#8482;s best web designer and developer events. A two day conference with an optional day of workshops, and two optional days at Whistler, is not to be missed.</short-description>
    <start-on type="date">2007-02-06</start-on>
    <title>Web Directions North</title>
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    <website>http://north.webdirections.org</website>
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    <tag-string>accessibility, ajax, apis, css, design, development, google, html, ia, mashups, microformats, mobile, ux, web20, webapps, webstandards, workflow, yahoo</tag-string>
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