NewsGator Developer Authors Book Revealing Secrets for Creating Great AJAX Applications on Microsoft SharePoint Server

By Melissa Risteff, September 03, 2009

Dan Larson, one of the key developers of NewsGator’s Social Sites enterprise social computing software, has released a new book titled, “Developing Service-Oriented AJAX Applications on the Microsoft® Platform,” published by Microsoft Press.

Dan, a software engineer, is an expert in AJAX Web development and a Microsoft MVP for SharePoint Server (previously covered in this blog post) which is the foundation for Social Sites, NewsGator’s software for activating “Facebook for the Enterprise.” 

“NewsGator Social Sites is one of the coolest applications you’ll ever see on SharePoint, and the slick user interface is built from the ground up using the Microsoft AJAX Library, including the SharePoint AJAX Toolkit (free at www.codeplex.com/sharepointajax),” Dan says. “A service-oriented AJAX application means we can deliver a rich Internet application that performs like a desktop application, and an architecture that can harness the energy of real-time social computing for business benefit. The book describes the approach we take to software development (writing Web Services and client-side user interfaces), how we do it, and how any developer can too."

You can read the entire press release here.

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Melissa Risteff

Melissa Risteff , Senior Vice President, Enterprise Engagment

Melissa Risteff is the SVP of Enterprise Engagement at NewsGator. She’s responsible for the adoption consultancy practice, partner competency and enablement program, and social business solution delivery – each having a major impact on aligning to customer business value and ultimately making social real. Melissa previously served as CMO of a collaborative analytics software firm, VP of Product for an eLearning company, and has held senior level strategy and product management roles at both Sun Microsystems and GE. She is a thought leader in the space – with advanced graduate research following her passion in social technologies and organizational development. Born in NY and raised in VT, Melissa moved to CO in ‘92 and stayed for the weather and lifestyle. She has an affinity for gastronomy, wanderlust, and hiking.

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