Ajax is not new, its not revolutionary, but it has changed the way I view web development. Javascript no longer comes as a might-have, instead it comes as a critical part of any website application. These days I use JavaScript as the UI scripting tool of choice, and I try to steer away from doing [...]
I have been thinking a lot recently about the use (or abuse) of AJAX on a website and it made me think of a strategy to try and adopt. Like all technological things it makes sense to understand the overall business goal first and then to proceed to the next step. It also makes sense [...]
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I attended the Mix Essentials 2008 event at Canal Walk (Cape Town, South Africa) today and there were quite a few things that interested me. There were five speakers at the event: David Ives – Developer and Platform Strategy Group for Microsoft in South Africa – Microsoft Brad Abrams – Group Program Manager for the [...]
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I downloaded the LiveValidation script recently and I realised after implementing it on a webpage I did not understand how it interacts with a PHP or ASP.NET application and it got me thinking that maybe I need to just try and understand how server-side and client-side code interacts with JavaScript. What is AJAX? I know [...]
Here’s the thing right, I really want to create a nice contact form for my website, but I also want to make sure that the form accepts the right type of information. For this I need some JavaScript and of late I have been reading a lot about JavaScript libraries such as jquery, mootools and [...]
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JavaScript has been found out! Its not as simplistic and uncomplicated as some, including me, believed. Its a full featured object-oriented scripting language that runs in your browser, and it spurned the development of Web 2.0 with the emergence of AJAX (Asynchronous Javascript and XML). The emergence of AJAX resulted in the development of better [...]
