• Meeting: Silicon Valley GTUG
• Date: October 1, 2008
• Cost: Always FREE to all!
• Topic: Introduction to Google's AJAX APIs
• Speaker: Chris Schalk

Although this is a free event, we are requesting that people register in advance and we will be limiting attendance to a maximum of 200 attendees.

The Google AJAX APIs let you implement rich, dynamic features on your existing web sites entirely in JavaScript and HTML. Using this family of APIs you can add a map to your site, include dynamic search controls, or download and mashup feeds with just a few lines of JavaScript.

These APIs include the Google Maps API, the Google AJAX Search API, and the Google AJAX Feed API as well as some newer ones that allow you to easily translate text content, visiualize graphical data and even integrate with other popular AJAX libraries including dojo and jQuery. This talk will explore various mashups between these APIs and as well as covering how to integrate them with other non-Google mashable APIs.

• 6:00-6:15pm Arrive & mingle -- Food & drinks provided by Google
  
• 6:15-6:45pm Google Technology Demos by our members
  
• 6:50-7:00pm General Announcements
  
• 7:00-8:00pm Introduction to Google's AJAX APIs by Chris Schalk
  
• 8:00-9:00pm Q&A plus further networking after talk

During the networking hour, we invite our members that develop applications using Google Technology to do brief demos of 5 minutes or less. Please contact Van Riper to indicate your interest to demo your stuff. Time permitting, we will include as many demos as possible before the main event. Demos of web applications taking advantage of Google AJAX API's will be given precedence for this particular meeting.

Chris Schalk is a Developer Advocate and works to promote Google's APIs and technologies. He is currently engaging the international Web development community with OpenSocial and related AJAX APIs. Before joining Google, Chris was a Principal Product Manager and technology evangelist at Oracle in the Java development tools group. Chris also co-authored the book: "JavaServer Faces, The Complete Reference" published through McGraw-Hill-Osborne.

Google, Inc. (GooglePlex Map)
Tunis Conference Room, Bldg. 43
1600 Amphitheatre Parkway
Mountain View, CA 94043

Please enter from the north side of the building, in the middle of the Google campus. Also, parking will be much easier to find in the lots south of Bldg. 44 across the street from the main complex.

We would like to thank Google for providing the venue and the refreshments for this meeting. In particular, we would like to thank Stephanie Liu for serving as our primary meeting support contact at Google.