Last week I gave a presentation on creating interactive web experiences using jQuery at the Wharton UIConf/Higher Ed Web Symposium over at the University of Pennsylvania.

For the presentation I took a plain HTML student schedule form and added a bunch of interactive features: a floating modal dialog box, visual animations, dynamic event handling, and AJAX content refreshes and server posts. Then I walked through the core features of jQuery that make it an invaluable tool for developing web applications that are both interactive and maintainable.

The demo applications are available here:
http://uiconf10-jquery-app.heroku.com/

The slides are available here:
http://uiconf10-jquery.heroku.com/

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This week I gave a presentation on security issues facing web developers to members of PANMA, the Philadelphia Area New Media Association, along with security expert Justin Klein Keane.

View the slide deck in PDF format

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My presentation covered common web security risks including cross-site scripting, injection, cross-site request forgery, and a few others listed in the OWASP Top 10 project. The presentation is meant to be a starting point to help web developers get into a security mindset. There’s valuable lessons in there for folks running any kind of web system using PHP, .NET, Ruby on Rails, or any other web platform.