RANDOM RAMBLINGS from my life experiences...

RANDOM RAMBLINGS:::

RAMBLING 1:
After 2 and half years of ASP.NET, I'm ready for something a little different. Luckily, it appears that our corporate standard is pushing towards the Smart Client model for apps. That'll be a nice change for me.

RAMBLING2:
I've randomly seen the acronym AJAX floating around the web. I had no idea what it was, and I've been too busy to care to find out. Then someone pointed out yesterday that it's the stuff that we've been doing for over 3 years now. Woohoo! Passing good ol' XML around with XMLHTTP and Javascript. Yippie! But suddenly someone wrapped an acronym around it, and it's the greatest thing since sliced bread. Who knew? But I'm sure it's not that simple. I'm sure it must involve some techniques and standards integrating .NET.
Published 27 July 2005 10:58 AM by eking1013

Comments

# Eric Newton said on 27 July, 2005 11:10 AM
AJAX: Yeah, you and a lot of others (I've dabbled in it)

Ajax.Net is cool because it takes a lot of the grunt work of the interaction out. Basically you can create a public static method in the Page that will provide some data, mark it with an [Ajax.AjaxMethodAttribute] and AJAX builds a Javascript .JS file that is sent out to the browser that will handle the call. Serializing to XML, sending it to XMLHTTP, etc etc etc.

Takes a lot of the damn grunt work out of the process, leaving us to do the cool stuff :-)
# Eric Newton said on 27 July, 2005 11:12 AM
Oooooo... and the contracter situation. Yeah, that would perturb me too. You mean they couldn't find some other team for that person to work on? (Assuming there's not too much of a behind the scenes story of tensions between that individual and higher-ups)

Yeah I completely agree with you on that. Hopefully the guy laid off will find work quickly.
# andrew said on 27 July, 2005 12:39 PM
ajax is quite cool. there are some new idioms for doing alot of the stuff we've been doing for a while. actually, it has not much to do with .net because it all lives in the browser. so you're back end can be .net if you have no alternative, or it can be perl, or php, or ruby or whatever.

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