My Journey to Ajax

Ok, so how did I get to Ajax.  Well my journey really started before I saw Google Maps.  In 2003, a guy named Anthony Mason showed me some code he wrote that used the client-side MSXML object from IE to make some calls to a web site without doing a full postback.  The problem I saw at that time was the amount of javascript necessary to perform this operation and the time spent debugging.  While debugging is still a fear of mine, I feel that the libraries, such as the Ajax Library for .NET, Sarissa, and others really take "most" of the debugging problems out of the loop.  Like everyone else, I thought that the Google products were really cool.  From there, things took off.  However, I never forgot about Anthony's demo he showed me.

Wally