Ajax News & Articles

Want to add some AJAXy goodness to your Joomla site? Don’t want to have to learn to program AJAX?. Open4G may have a solution for you.

The Zoho Office team has been consistently adding integrated products to its stellar AJAX Web Office Suite, and picking up some much deserved respect along the way. The latest this week is the Zoho Wiki.

As every other application under the sun goes AJAX, its about time Document and Knowledge Management had its share of Web 2.0 spin. There’s some meat to this message however. The Spain-based OpenKM project is delivering real and open source Document Management and Knowledge Management functionality for the small, medium enterprise.

Virginia-based Bitrix releases Bitrix Site Manager 5.1, which is faster on the rendering side than the previous version, and in the grand spirit of this Web 2.0 thing is both sporting a fancy AJAX-enabled UI and supports the creation of blogs.

Sweet Google can you do no wrong? With the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) 1.3 Release Candidate, all of GWT is open source under the Apache 2.0 license.

If you are noob to the AJAX scene but wanna be leet, or if you just want to rub elbows with the masters of Asynchronous JS, buy your ticket now to THE AJAX gathering of 2007.

AJAXWorld Conference and Expo runs March 19th through 21st at the Roosevelt Hotel in New York City.

Arriving one step at a time, and perhaps only as the buzz is cooling a touch, Microsoft announces the next (beta) version of their take on an AJAX framework. And though they have in the past released proprietary scripting solutions (JScript, for example), Microsoft has released a version of the framework — Microsoft ASP.NET AJAX v1.0 (previously called Atlas) — which talks about multi-browser and multi-platform support. However, there’s little surprise that Firefox is not widely discussed.

Starting Aug 4th Sun's Sang Shin is kicking-off a free 10-week online course for budding AJAX developers. The course is both for people just getting started with AJAX and for those looking to refine their AJAX dev skills. It should come as no surprise that the context will be strongly colored by Sun's penchant for Java technologies.

Sun has announced its support of the AJAX application model by joining the OpenAJAX Alliance, as well as the Dojo Foundation. Sun plans to actively participate in these two communities, driving open standards for AJAX programming and increase interoperability across AJAX technologies.

One of our favorite ASP.NET component vendors, Telerik, has recently launched an AJAX developer center portal. Its pretty light weight for the time being and is obviously geared towards Telerik’s own ASP.NET rich callback component suite, but does offer some valuable resources for those just getting started with rich client AJAX dev.

Resources include: History of AJAX, Getting Started with AJAX, Problems and Challenges with AJAX (ASP.NET specific), etc. Telerik AJAX Developer Center