Meet the experts: What's new with Dojo Toolkit 1.1

Roland Barcia is a Senior Technical Staff Member and lead Web 2.0 architect for IBM Software Services for WebSphere. He is a co-author of IBM WebSphere: Deployment and Advanced Configuration and the forthcoming Persistence within the Enterprise .

Roland's screen name for this chat is rbarcia.

Becky Gibson is a Senior Technical Staff Member at IBM's Westford, Massachusetts lab and a member of the IBM Emerging Technologies group. She started working on the toolkit in May 2006, and has contributed to toolkit releases 0.4, 0.9, 1.0, 1.0.1. At IBM, Becky is a Web Accessibility Architect. Her contributions to Dojo have focused on accessibility.

Becky's screen name for this chat is becka11y.

Jared Jurkiewicz is an Advisory Software Engineer and a lead developer on the IBM WebSphere Application Server Feature Pack for Web 2.0. He is also a committer to the Dojo toolkit, focusing there on the dojo.data access APIs and the dojox.wires declarative event and data wiring project. In previous roles during his eight years at IBM, he was the Release Architect for WAS 5.1.1, and was directly responsible for many of the expansions of operating system support by WebSphere Application Server. His current expertise is in Java and JNI programming, JavaScript, C, and general Web development.

Jared's screen name for this chat is jaredj.

Adam Peller is a Software Engineer at IBM and works at his home in a suburb of Boston. He started working on the toolkit in April 2006, and has worked on all releases since 0.3. He is a member of the IBM Emerging Technologies group and is currently the interim project lead for the dojoX project. He was part of the team that led the initial evaluation of Dojo and other Ajax frameworks for IBM.

Adam's screen name for this chat is peller.