Recently, a number of Web sites have begun to raise some eyebrows within the
developer community. What's unique about these sites is that they behave more
like a desktop application than a Web application. As you interact with them,
they quickly display an endless amount of information to your browser without
reloading the page.
At the Google Maps site for example (http://maps.google.com/), you can click
on the map, zoom in, zoom out, and move around as much as you like. Your
browser continues to be fed with data from the server, yet your browser
doesn't have to refresh. They're not using applets, or anything like Flash,
so how are they doing it?
Introducing Asynchronous JavaScript + XML, also known as Ajax. To properly
describe what Ajax is, it's easiest to contrast it... (more)
Every now and then a new development tool comes along that is so simple and
elegant it leaves us wondering, why didn't we get this sooner? Introducing
Intellisense Code Snippets, it's a new feature available in Visual Studio
(VS) 2005 that makes inserting routine code much faster and easier.
Using snippets is as simple as right-clicking in the IDE and left-clicking on
the Insert Code Snip... (more)
Tommy Newcomb works for Magenic as an IT consultant in the Chicago area.
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