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Hi all,

As I've mentioned in a previous post, I'm big into design patterns. Here's a couple of books I've found that might interest you:

- Ajax Design Patterns, by Michael Mahemoff (O'Reilly)

- Ajax Patterns and Best Practices, by Christian Gross (Apress)

I personally have not read either, but I plan to buy at least one on the subject. Which one? Don't know yet!

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Design patterns are one of my favorite architecture and design concepts. They're highly useful and often provide a good starting point (and sometimes a full solution) to common software problems. Every technology can benefit from patterns, and Ajax is no exception. Check out http://ajaxpatterns.org. It's devoted entirely to applying patterns to Ajax development.

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Form validation is about as exciting as watching ice melt. So whenever I see some tutorials, I actually pay attention to see if someone can take the drudge out of it.

Check out the following link: AJAX Form Validation - Learn Step By Step. It's a 6-part tutorial on how to do from validation in Ajax.

It seems to me that this tutorial is more exciting than watching ice melt, by far;-)

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Creating a menu system is a basic chore in many apps; web pages included. Here's a video on how to do one with Ajax: Creating an Ajax-driven Drop-down Menu System.

New Ajax Resource

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Debugging is a fact of developer life. You can't avoid it entirely and it's usually never fun. It is a critical skill to have and it pays off handsomely to have the necessary knowledge as well as tools to do the job. Not every problem is a nail, so if a hammer is all you have, then you'll be hurting pretty badly on those non-nail ones ;-)

Believe it or not, YouTube came through again! I found a really sweet video called Introduction to Debugging AJAX Application with Firebug. For those of you not familiar with Firebug, it's a FireFox add-on that allows you to edit, debug, and monitor CSS, HTML, and JavaScript live in any web page. Sounds like a must-have to me!

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So YouTube did it again! Here's another link to a pretty cool video: Create an Ajax Chat Client in 8 minutes and 15 seconds.

Not sure you'll ever want to create a chat client, but I always find some useful piece of knowledge from every app I see, whether it's new ideas on architecture, patterns, GUI design, etc.

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YouTube never ceases to amaze me (in both good and bad ways). On occasion, I will find something useful that actually contributes to elevating one's intellect. Here's one such video: Enabling Dragging Using Ajax.

New Ajax Resource

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I found this gem of a site through some link chasing. It contains a ton of Ajax-based toolkits and frameworks that can be used with .NET, PHP, Java, Ruby, JavaScript. There's something for everyone here! Check it out at http://www.ajaxprojects.com.

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This site contains some interesting techniques on several alternate asynchronous communication techniques. Very interesting read. Check it out at
http://www.webreference.com/programming/ajax_tech.

New Ajax Resource

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W3 Schools is a well-known site with straight-to-the-point content. Always one on my list of sites to visit when dealing with web technologies. Check their Ajax tutorials at http://www.w3schools.com/Ajax.

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Hi all,

I found a site that I think is a great resource to check out. It contains numerous tutorials on using Ajax with other technologies, like .NET, java, and PHP, to name just a few. Check it out at http://www.ajax-tutorials.com.

Welcome!

Thanks for visiting my blog. This is actually my first blog ever, so bear with me as I develop my blogging skills. I intend to get "bloggy" about all-things Ajax here, so visit often and see what up in my Ajax world. Feel free to share your list of sites and resources as well!