Today is the deadline for The Ajax Experience Scholarship applications… please send yours in no later than 5 pm Eastern Daylight Time today (GMT -4).
Winners will be announced tomorrow!
AJAX AND REST
Bill Higgins has released part one of his article series on Ajax and REST:
The more that server-side Web applications become immersive by following rich-application models and delivering personalized content, the more their architectures violate Representational State Transfer (REST), the Web’s architectural style. These violations can decrease application scalability and increase system complexity. By achieving harmony with REST, Ajax architecture lets immersive Web applications eliminate these negative effects and enjoy REST’s desirable properties.
He gets into the joy of a stateful web client, caching the Ajax engine as well as data.
Promose and problems
For the class of Web applications that I call immersive Web applications, well-designed Ajax/REST applications are far superior to traditional server-wide Web applications with regard to user experience, responsiveness, and scalability. However, an architectural style’s run-time characteristics aren’t the only determinant of success for a software project and Web application. There are some tough non-run-time problems with creating Ajax/REST applications, including problems of large-scale JavaScript development, cultural issues, and packaging problems. I’ll be discussing the cultural issues in a companion article and will leave the other concerns for my Ajax colleagues to tackle.
FARECAST: TRAVEL HELP
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It has a pleasant flush programme including see refinement, mapping, desegrated graphing and grids.
