Hi, world. I’m the coauthor of “Pro HTML5 and CSS3 Design Patterns” by Apress and “The Essential Guide to HTML5 and CSS3 Web Design” by FRIENDS OF ED.

I’ve been a past member of the W3C HTML Working Group and former Lead Editor for HTML5/JavaScript for InfoQ, where I also wrote about the JVM platform. I was the Research Platform Lead at C4Media, and moved on to Head of R&D — the position I currently holds.

Going back and forth between server-side programming, front-end design, and product management for almost two decades, I’ve been involved in diverse software projects and contributed to different technical publications and standards committees.

You can contact me on Twitter, Github, Facebook or LinkedIn.

Name Etymology

Dio -> Dionysios -> Dionysus  /daɪ.əˈnaɪsəs/ dy-ə-ny-səs (Ancient Greek: Διόνυσος, Dionysos) was the god of the grape harvest, winemaking and wine, of ritual madness and ecstasy in Greek mythology.

Presentations, Interviews, Media

• Lanyrd speaker profile page,
• “Visualizing Information with HTML5“, QCon New York 2012.
• Presenting at the local Google Technology User Group’s “Extreme JavaScript” event, about “Debugging & Profiling w/ Chrome Tools and Speed Tracer“,
• Host of the “HTML5, the Platform” track in QCon London 2011,
• Presenting at the DSL DevCon 2009 (Microsoft Campus, Redmond) on “JavaScript DSLs for the Client Side“,
• Interviewing Dion Almaer and Ben Galbraith about “Development Tools for the Open Web“,
• Interviewing Tim Bray about “The Future of the Web“,
• Interviewing Ric Smith on the “Present and the Future of HTML5“,
• Interviewing Dylan Schiemann on the “Mobile Web application Development with HTML5 and JavaScript“,
• Going “Deep inside Node.js” with Ryan Dahl,
• Interviewing Brian Warner on “Browser APIs, Extentions and Add-on Security“,
• Interviewing Subbu Allamaraju on the “REST and the Web as a Platform“,
• Interviewing Mark S. Miller on “ECMAScript 5, Caja and Retrofitting Security“.

Journals

• D. Synodinos and P. Avgeriou, “Leveraging Hypermedia Engineering for Multi-channel Access, with the use of XML”, International journal for Computer Systems Science & Engineering, Special Issue on Trends in XML Technology for the Global Information Infrastructure (Volume 14, No 5, September 2003)
• D. Synodinos and P. Avgeriou, ” Hypermedia Design for the Mobile Era”, International Journal of Mobile Communications (IJMC), (Volume 2 – Issue 3 – 2004)

Conferences

• D. Synodinos and P. Avgeriou, “The Art of Multi-channel Hypermedia Application Development”, in proceedings of MobEA WS (Collocated with WWW2003 conference), Budapest, Hungary, May 20th 2003
• D. Synodinos and P. Avgeriou, “m-WOnDA: The ‘Write Once ‘n’ Deliver Anywhere’ model for mobile users”, Springer-Verlag LNCS Volume 2784 / 2003, October 2003, Pages: 205 – 216
  • Originally presented in the ” Workshop on Conceptual Modelling Approaches to Mobile Information Systems Development” (MobIMod’2002), October 2002, Tampere, Finland, Joint to the 21st International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2002)
• D. Synodinos and P. Avgeriou, “WOnDA: an Extensible Multi-platform Hypermedia Design Model”, Springer-Verlag LNCS Volume 2426, pp 217-228.
  • Originally presented in the “First International Workshop on Efficient Web-based Information Systems” (EWIS 2002), September 2nd, 2002, Montpellier, France, Joint to the 8th International Conference on Object-Oriented Information Systems (OOIS)
• Vitor Santiago Nunes and Dionysios Synodinos, ” Public Relation Policies”, #16-P-TO-PRS-999 , B.E.S.T. (Board of European Students of Technology) President’s Meeting, Torino November 1998

Specifications / Committees

• Member of the Expert Group for JSR 339: “JAX-RS 2.0: The Java API for RESTful Web Services“

Reviewer for Technical books

• “Programming HTML5 Applications: Building Powerful Cross-Platform Environments in Javascript“, Publisher: O’Reilly; 1 edition (November 29, 2011)
• “Hibernate Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach“, Publisher: Apress; 1 edition (June 29, 2010)

Reviewer for Academic Journals

• Special issue of IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans, “M-services – Web Services for the Wireless World”
• International Journal of Mobile Communications (IJMC), Summer 2003, Inderscience Enterprises Ltd

Technical Magazines

• Dionysios G. Synodinos, “CMS in a Nutshell“, Unix Review, Oct 2005
• Dionysios G. Synodinos, “Sessioning with XMLHttpRequest“, Dr. Dobb’s Journal, January 2006
• Dionysios G. Synodinos, “Web Maps with the Google Map API“, Dr. Dobb’s Journal, December 2007

InfoQ

• All of Dio Synodinos’ Content on InfoQ