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If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!The AJAXWorld Conference & Expo will take place October 2-4, 2006, at the Santa Clara Convention Center, California.
The conference will focus on the advancements of Rich Internet Applications (RIA) and Web 2.0 software development. AJAX has leaped to the forefront of web development in the last 18 months and is now considered the best model for developing the future of the Internet.
Here is just a partial list of topics to be covered.

Toolkits/Frameworks
Extending AJAX
Real-World AJAX and Web 2.0
AJAX, Web Services and SOAs
Security in the AJAX/Web […]

XML.com has a good article on building a simple RSS News Reader using AJAX.
The article steps through each aspect of building a reader with in depth explanations and also has the source code available to be downloaded.
Why are we using Ajax to parse our RSS? By using Ajax, we are passing over the work of processing the RSS XML file to the web browser, thus reducing server load. Also, Ajax allows the user to have a more seamless web experience, because we are able to fetch the entire RSS XML file from the server without having to refresh the page. […]

Ajax in Action is an excellent book by Dave Crane, Eric Pascarello, Darren James

I first approached Manning about writing this book before the term ‘Ajax’ was coined, having spent several years battling through JavaScript and web-based projects and wishing that someone had written down the lessons that I was learning the hard way. I hope the book can help to smooth your introduction to programming using Ajax.
SOURCE : Dave Crane
Obviously Dave has a lot of background to offer us in JavaScript, even before Jesse James Garrett coined the term Ajax in February 2005. This is still one of […]