Professional Development News & Articles

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.

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