New Cheatsheet: What's Ajax?

Have I been workin' hard, or hardly workin'? It's a good question. Either way, I've been hacking away an Ajax chapter for the book. Ajax has been becoming one of my very favorite topics, if for no other reason that there is very little writing out there, so far, which makes it as simple as it really is. Plus it's just freakin' cool.

Cheatsheet

What's Ajax? (PDF) is my attempt to cut away as much of the Ajax smoke & pixie dust with a single page. As for the theme, I was inspired by the font (Big Bloke BB). Let me know what you think!

Ajax Interface Example

I've also created a little example movie of an Ajax interface I got to create at work for Ning. If you're working on adding some kind of in-line editing to your applications, you might find it useful. I should have typed less since it was a demo movie, but I was going for realism (translation: I wasn't thinking, and am too lazy to redo it).

Note: The techniques shown in the video are not the same as edit-in-place (EIP). The form is generated by hand-coded Javascript; edit-in-place is somewhat less fancy and it involves less custom work.

Downloads

What's Ajax? cheat sheet (PDF)
Ajax photo sharing app interface (MOV)

Links for Cheatsheet

added 10/30/05—thanks, Jamal

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