On Responsiveness

Ben Galbraith is the co-director of Developer Tools at Mozilla. Ben has long juggled interests in both business and tech, having written his first computer program at six years old, started his first business at ten, and entered the IT workforce at twelve. He has delivered hundreds of technical presentations world-wide, produced several technical conferences, and co-authored over a half-dozen books. He has enjoyed a variety of business and technical roles throughout his career, including CEO, CIO, CTO, and Chief Software Architect roles in medical, publishing, media, manufacturing, advertising, and software industries. He lives in Palo Alto with his wife and five children.

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Dion Almaer is the co-founder of Ajaxian.com, the leading source of the Ajax community. For his day job, Dion co-leads a new group at Mozilla focusing on developer tools for the Web, which is something he has been passionate about doing for years. He is is excited for the opportunity, and gets to work with Ben Galbraith, his partner in crime on Ajaxian and now at Mozilla!

Dion has been writing rich web applications from the beginning, has been fortunate enough to speak around the world, and has published many articles, a book, and of course his blog at almaer.com/blog. Dion also used to work for Google, in the Open Web group!

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