"AJAX is on course to become one of the primary application development models of the future," Dion Hinchcliffe declared at the outset of his fact-packed presentation on AJAX Design Patterns at SYS-CON Events' sold-out "Real-World AJAX" One-Day Seminar in San Jose, CA, today. Hinchcliffe, whose Web 2.0 blog is widely consumed Web-wide, is one of the world's foremost experts on All Things Web 2.0, and he did not disappoint: his aim, he told the audience, was to "fit all of AJAX into your head" - and, in just 50 minutes, that's just what he did.

Hinchcliffe covered an enormous range of material, and will doubtless be blogging about his session within minutes of finishing it. But even before he does, let the record show that nothing was clearer, in San Jose this morning, than the incredible flair and intelligence that he manages to pack into his remarkable visualizations, now famous from his blog of course but being seen for the first time in the world on huge 16-foot screens on either side of the "Real-World AJAX" speaker podium.

The definitive volume on AJAX, Real-World AJAX: Secrets of the Masters - forthcoming in June - is another amazing reference resource that bears Hinchcliffe's imprimatur: he was invited by SYS-CON Books to edit it knowing that he was the right man for the job but he has amazed even SYS-CON's group publisher Jeremy Geelan with his energy and "reach," bringing in the best contributors on AJAX from all over the world.