AjaxCoded

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 my favorites and will help anyone digging into JavaScript and Ajax.

Now this is the way it should be. Google has released a Google AJAX Search API - Issue Tracking web page.

Not only do they give us a forum with developers present to discuss the API we can now see all the progress on bugs and feature request. If you find a problem or have a request you still report them at the Google AJAX Search API Groups Discussion.

It also helps us know what they consider a real issue. Read the official post.

Thanks Google!

Yahoo has released their new Ajax oriented home page, July 17th, 2006.

It is a major improvement over the past design with a format that is aesthetically appealing and more inline with the current offerings of most major Search and Portal sites.

The site appears to be more Portal and less Search these days and that may just be the route Yahoo has decided to take in the future.

Has everyone conceded the searching to Google, especially since google is now a verb ?

You can keep up to date with Yahoo and their changes at the Yahoo! Search blog