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Buzzword Buzz

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

One key development - to me perhaps the most exciting - is an approach to web development called AJAX. This is just what Ajax means to change. To make a long story really short, an Ajax application uses JavaScript to get data from the server whenever it is needed, without requiring the browser to redraw the entire page.

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J is for javascript.

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

If you do some web programming but you haven't tried the new Ajax techniques in your Web projects yet, you can find some great examples that demystify the whole thing in Ajax Hacks , by Bruce Perry. So it's what's on my mind. Still seems pretty complicated? You might want to try JSON (javascript object notation).

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2011 NTC Preview: Practical HTML5/CSS3 for Nonprofits

NTEN

AJAX, SEO, B2B anyone -- around Web Design and Development. If things are moving around your screen in a really exciting way, chances are there is some serious CSS3 or JavaScript doing the heavy lifting and HTML5 has only served as the canvas on which those scripting gymnastics occur. The crowd will be huge, right? And cheering?

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CommunityOne West and JavaOne: Free Event in San Francisco for Open Source Developers and Other Techies for Good

NTEN

Enjoy three jam-packed days on a breadth of topics, including languages (Javaâ„¢, PHP, Groovy, AJAX, Ruby, Python), operating systems (OpenSolarisâ„¢, Linux, Android), Web and application servers (GlassFishâ„¢, Apache), databases (MySQLâ„¢), and services. RIAs and Scripting - Rich Internet applications, scripting, and tools.

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Hub-bub

Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

mHub is eHub for developers - instead of serving up applications, Max leads us to sites that offer usable scripts, snippets, widgets, or techniques for our development efforts. Max is Emily's partner in Ideacodes , their web consultancy and design firm. In other words, its a candy store for programmers.

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4 Nerdiest Upcoming Convio Features

Connection Cafe

Anyone who has ever written an AJAX application will likely agree that while it makes sense from a security perspective, the "same origin policy" is the root of all evil. A lot has changed since then, most notably, Google has updated Analytics to use what's known as an asynchronous script. Oh, memories.

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