A new report conducted by market research firm Info-Tech Research Group says 95 per cent of information technology groups “are not delivering some number of projects on time or to the full satisfaction of the business executive.”
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SAJAX - Simple Ajax Toolkit by ModernMethod - XMLHTTPRequest Toolkit for PHP
This framework allows you to easily use Ajax with PHP (along with a slew of others).
XMLHttpRequest Usability Guidelines | Baekdal.com
Thomas Baekdal discusses some usability guidelines to consider when developing a web application with XMLHttpRequest objects. Definitely worth a read.
Dare Obasanjo aka Carnage4Life - SOA, AJAX and REST: The Software Industry Devolves into the Fashion Industry
It’s definitely true that Ajax is just a buzzword used to describe a set of existing technologies, as Dare Obasanjo points out. However, it also goes one step further and gets into how those technologies are used together [...]
AJAX: Web “shift” or business as usual? | News.blog | CNET News.com
Mike Ricciuti, executive editor for c|net raises the question about the hype over AJAX. Is it simply another buzzword created as “a way for some vendors to sell more products without doing anything new”, as Dare Obasanjo, a developer at Microsoft puts it?
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Mike West :: XMLHttpRequest Object Wrapper
I haven’t had time to try it out yet, but Mike West has posted a wrapper for the XMLHttpRequest object (it’s that javascript object that makes Ajax possible). From his site:
A JavaScript wrapper for the XMLHttpRequest object that enables the trivial implimentation of dynamic interfaces without the painful necessity [...]
Corporate RSS - Applied: Corporate RSS Made Simple
Funny how I was just thinking the same thing…
Coding Horror: Because IE6 is the new Netscape 4.7x
Interesting read: Jeff Atwood points out that what developers are saying now about IE 6 are the same types of things they said about Netscape 4.7x. If IE 7 is to be the savior browser for Microsoft, it had better fix the problems (which including full [...]
XMLHttpRequest & Ajax Working Examples - Links and Resources, Fiftyfoureleven.com
Found a great resource for working examples of Ajax.
Guide: Install & Configure Apache with PHP, JSP, MySQL, and PHPMyAdmin on Windows 2000/XP
This is a quick guide I wrote to install and configure the Apache web-server with PHP and JSP support on a Windows XP Pro SP2 machine. Let me know if this helps you out! Feedback is appreciated. This is my first published [...]