Lunch 2.0

I am not the “cheer leader”. I am not “special”. Yet, I think like a superhero dreaming of saving the web, saving the world. Of course I am still a geek like Chunk.

Our discussion event is on the darkest Halloween week ever in history. I checked my favorite FengShui Master Manual. It stated that the most critical period is from Oct 8, 2008 to Nov 7, 2008. Stay calm. Just wait until we pass this darkest period.

Another geek hero, Michael Carter is our last addition to our discussion panel. Michael left Kaazing recently so he focused his energy in W3C HTML5 specifications. He is sad about HTML5.

Michael Carter as the WebSocket leader, with his dangerous styled rock band hair, carries similar charm like the Rails Creator, David Heinemeier Hansson. He wowed the roomful audience with his brilliant presentation when I first invited him to speak at our 1st iPhone Startup Camp. Michael is also a world renowned rollerblade free styler and speed demon.

Another surprise came. Our panlist Dion Almaer is leaving Google to devote himself to the Browser maker Mozilla. Our fever on browser is starting to rub off on our panelist. Dion is accomplished classic and jazz pianist.

At our last historic discussion “Browser Wars: Episode II – Attack of the DOMs”, I selected the theme song “We’re All In This Together”, from the movie “High School Musicals”. Majority of the attending geeks couldn’t get the meaning of the song lyrics because the song is way too young for their ages.

This time I am going with the song “4 Minutes” by Madonna as our theme song, replacing “4 Minutes” with “HTML4”. Question is how we can save the web with existing HTML4. If our Wall Street and bank system are broken like this credit crisis, our government work with the world leaders to improve the market system immediately. Our web is heading to a dead space where everything is a hack. W3C is still sitting on the same agenda 2022 for HTML5 specification. It is absolutely unacceptable. Not acceptable for the fact that the innovation is depending very much on the web.

This is the song I hope W3C will listen and act on it. Give us better tools to innovate in Silicon Valley. Save the web save the world.

“Time is waiting
We only got HTML 4 to save the world
No hesitating
We only got HTML 4, HTML 4
…
(Tick tock tick tock tick tock)
Yeah, uh huh
(Tick tock tick tock tick tock)
I only got HTML 4
To save the world”

“Save The Web Save The World”
拯救網頁保存世界

Bess
SVWB Founder

10/29/2008 Wed 6:30-10:00pm
The Chronicles of Web Standard: the HTML5, the Comet, and the WebSocket
Location: Google, Mountain View Campus
Address: Tunis Tech Talk Building 43, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043
Registration URL: http://webstandard.eventbrite.com
FREE if register online

Note: Google will be providing dinner and drink for the evening. Please register in advance to save your seat. Arrive early before 6:30pm for check-in, networking and book autograph. We’ll be giving out close to thousand dollar worth of latest developer books, thank to sponsors O’Reilly, Apress, Manning and Pragmatic. Halloween costume is allowed. Prizes will be giving out to best dressed geeks based on the movie “Matrix”.

Discussion
Moderator & Presenter:
Kevin Nilson, Principal Software Architect at E*Trade Financial
Speakers:
Alex Rusell, President of the Dojo Foundation & Project Lead for The Dojo Toolkit
Dion Almaer, Open Web Advocate at Google and co-founder of Ajaxian.com and “Audible Ajax” podcast.
Michael Carter
Founder at Orbited Project & Official Contributor for W3C HTML5
John Fallows, CTO and co-founder at Kaazing
Ted Goddard,Senior Software Architect at ICEsoft Technologies and ICEfaces.org

Agenda
6:30 – 7:00 Networking
7:00 – 7:15 Introduce Comet, Introduce Panel Topic, Introduce Panel
Members (Kevin Nilson)
7:15 – 8:15 Panel Discussion (Full Panel)
8:15 – 8:30 Q/A (Full Panel, moderated by Kevin Nilson)
8:30 – 8:45 Break / Network / Signage / Raffle
8:45 – 9:30 Technical Comet Presentation: Overview of Polling, Long Polling, and Streaming, followed by Details Bayuex using Cometd (Kevin Nilson)

Hackathon 4 Kids
Register: http://hackathon4kids.eventbrite.com
Admission: FREE
Participating Kids: FREE geek toy (Until supplies last)

Speakers:
Doug Ricket, Map Engineer from Google
Marzia Niccolai, App Engine Engineer from Google

Date: 11/9/08 Sun
Time: 1:15pm-4:15pm
Location: Foothill College Campus
Address: 12345 El Monte Road Los Altos Hills, CA 94022
Parking: Parking Lot 5
Website: http://www.siliconvalley-codecamp.com
Toy Giveaways: Sponsored by Rockyou

“I am not the cheerleader” in Hero. I am not “special”. But, I do think the web can save the world.

“Save The Web Save The World”

I am just a “geek” like Chuck. I like to spill out beans on technology that I am passionate about especially with free lunch offers. I find the NBC production crews do follow me here. Lately I receive email requests from advertisers who express interests to advertise on my blog posts here. Those highly paid SEM hackers are spamming my posts with casino and insurance links. The music industry insiders think I am a celebrity from the geek world, not because I am related to Britney Spears.

Like the cheerleader in Hero, I have been hiding out to avoid brutal attacks online. Thanks to Tim O’Reilly and Robert Scoble to step out to support the minority gender group. I feel a little bit safer to start a blog. I am letting the kitty out of the bag. I am officially releasing our official blog here. This is where we will gather the world experts, rock-star developers and smart geeks to explain and discuss very cutting edge and cool information, that is beyond our monthly meetings.

Stock market sank when I announced our “Browser Wars Episode II: Attack of the DOM”. Stock market sank when Google announced the release of browser Google Chrome. It is the lack of confidence that is eroding our American Dreams. Our next special meeting is on a very dark Halloween week, Oct 29 Wed. My plan is not to give chances for the traders to short our stock market.

Our Halloween special event “The Chronicles of Web Standard: the HTML5, the Comet, and the WebSocket” is not directly related to browsers. Our event theme title is based on my favorite novels, The Chronicles of Narnia, where time travel is possible and the good fight against the evil.

Comet, nicknamed “Reverse Ajax”, allow low-latency (less delay). Ajax Push, Full Duplex Ajax, and Streaming Ajax are the design patterns for Comet. WebSocket standard (TCP/IP Connection) is part of the HTML 5 that is going to be ready to implement for browsers while the entire HTML 5 release is in 2022.

WebSocket standard is designed to increase the efficiency of networking for browser applications and to remove the limitations of the HTTP request-response communication model. Use it wisely to replace Ajax-based infrastructure will lower your scalability cost significantly. Too much Ajax can be expensive on bandwidth cost.

While our government officials are busy fixing Wall Street, we will be planning our discussion on the existing and next Web Standard. Can our next Web Standard get more support from AJAX library and platforms? Can our next Web Standard scheduled to be implemented by Browsers? Can the ECMA Technical Committee put aside the voices and sing in harmony on the next JavaScript standard? Can W3C hurry up in drafting standard?

While the social security, banking, real estate, and financial markets are in serious troubles with no easy quick fixes, web has the best chance to change the world.

“Save The Web Save The World”
拯救網頁保存世界

Bess
SVWB Founder

10/29/2008 Wed 6:300-10:00pm
The Chronicles of Web Standard: the HTML5, the Comet, and the WebSocket
Moderator & Presenter:
Kevin Nilson, Principal Software Architect at E*Trade Financial
Speakers:
Alex Rusell,President of the Dojo Foundation & Project Lead for The Dojo Toolkit
Dion Almaer, Open Web Advocate at Google and co-founder of Ajaxian.com and “Audible Ajax” podcast.
John Fallows, CTO and co-founder at Kaazing
Ted Goddard, Senior Software Architect at ICEsoft Technologies and ICEfaces.org
Registration URL: http://webstandard.eventbrite.com
FREE if register online

Note: Received 150 registrations. We are planning to receive 200-300 attendees. For those who are traveling to US to attend please register immediately.

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