AJAX Tutorials

  • 6 AJAX Rules To Live By

    AJAX, or Asyncronous JavaScript And XML, has been around for a few years now. Web Developers have done some really great things with AJAX, but I've also come across some horrible uses of AJAX. I've coupled together my experience as a Web Programmer and a lowly web user and have come up with six AJAX rules to live by.

  • 8 Considerations For Choosing Your JavaScript Framework

    Picking your JavaScript framework is a difficult decision. There are many considerations that need to be made when choosing which JavaScript framework is best for you. These are the considerations I judge each JavaScript framework by before committing to it for a project (or all of them).

  • 6 Reasons To Use JavaScript Libraries & Frameworks

    I've seen many articles around the internet from JavaScript fundamentalists that advocate writing your own JavaScript code instead of using JavaScript frameworks like MooTools, Prototype / Scriptaculous, jQuery, MochiKit, YUI Library, and Dojo Toolkit, and I just cannot agree with their reasons for not using these spectacular frameworks.

  • The 7 Major Roadblocks That Cripple Web Developers and The Internet

    As a web developer I periodically take a step back from the text editor and look at the landscape of the web and how we continue to try to push the boundaries of the internet. Over the last few years we've seen a tremendous push with developments in AJAX, JavaScript frameworks (i.e. Prototype, MooTools, Dojo), and the upcoming AIR technology from Adobe. We've also seen the spread of Firefox push Microsoft into resuscitating the Internet Explorer browser (for better or worse), blogging explode into a major internet medium, and social networking sites like Facebook and Pownce revolutionize the way we communicate and "profile" online. Nevertheless, the internet is moving too slow in its advancement. The following are the major roadblocks that have crippled the advancement of a technology that could be so much more.