Software As She’s Developed

Man, JSON has come out of nowhere! I first came across it amid the Javascript hype in early '05, now it's everywhere. Not only in your Ajax apps, but in the On-Demand Javascript APIs of the world. Sharing an ethic of simplicity with Rails, it's not surprising these technologies have come closely together, with JSON support [...]

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Whereupon a new podcast series begins ... As promised, a new series of Ajax pattern podcasts. This is the first of four podcasts on the Ajax programming patterns. In this 73 minute podcast, we look at the seven patterns of web services as they relate to Ajax clients. RPC Service Expose web services as Remote Procedural Calls [...]

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Further to the previous post on new Ajax programming patterns, it's also worth noting there's a new bunch of corresponding online Ajax demos too. Being programming patterns, they tend to be "pure refactorings" rather than enhancements, thus the user experience is mostly the same - you have to look under the covers to see what's [...]

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I've uploaded full text for 18 new Ajax patterns, completing a first-cut draft for all Programming Patterns content, which will be one part of the book. This section bridges the gap between the very basics of Ajax - XMLHttpRequest, DOM, etc - and the high-level stuff like widgets and visual effects. For instance, how do [...]

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