So I've had this cool idea, and I wanted to use it for my upcoming Day of Ajax, but we decided that there was already a full schedule, so we are postponing it until CodeCamp Tampa 2007. BTW, the we = "Jim Zimmerman and I" (but we would be happy to include others).
Anyway, here's the basic concept : Jim and I will form a team of developers to try to accomplish some task with Ajax. It may be 2 competing teams or it may be 1 team, but regardless the task has to be a challenge, but not so much of a challenge that it can't be done in a few hours. My thought is that at the end of the day we will unveil our creation(s).
If we form 2 teams then we need to somehow vary the rules for each team. Here's an idea that Jim came up with: one team must use free tools and the other (only) uses commercial tools.
If we go with the competing team challenge, Jim and I will both want to use SubSonic for DAL (if there's a DB involved). BTW, V2 just shipped...
Maybe Jim and I can try to whip up some controls (and it could be a control challenge)... Honestly, I just want something fun. Jim and I are really good with this Ajax stuff (in fact his book just got published), and I want to be able to put together a practical how we did it, etc.