Alex Russell

Director of R&D, SitePen, Inc.

Alex Russell is project lead for the Dojo Toolkit and Director of R&D at SitePen, a consultancy focused on the development of web applications, exceptional user experiences, and pushing the limits of the web. Currently, he serves as President of the Dojo Foundation, an organization that supports development of several high-quality open source JavaScript projects and distributes them under liberal terms.

Prior to joining SitePen, Alex was a senior software engineer at JotSpot and Informatica where he helped both companies build highly interactive web interfaces. His earlier open source involvement included stints as editor of the OWASP Guide to Building Secure Web Applications and primary author of the netWindows DHTML toolkit.

Current Projects

Dojo Toolkit
Cometd
OpenAjax Alliance
EcmaScript 4 Working Group

Why Comet?

Comet improves application responsiveness for collaborative, multi-user applications and does it without the performance headaches associated with intermittent polling.