Kurt Cagle

This content is reprinted from Real-World AJAX: Secrets of the Masters published by SYS-CON Books. To order the entire book now along with companion DVDs for the special pre-order price, click here for more information. Aimed at everyone from enterprise developers to self-taught scripters, Real-World AJAX: Secrets of the Masters is the perfect book for anyone who wants to start developing AJAX applications. Counting on JavaScript Arrays Objects (and object functions) are remarkably useful things, but there are times when all you're really concerned about is a list of items. List manipulation can be found at the heart of any number of sophisticated languages so it's probably not surprising to discover that JavaScript actually has quite a powerful toolset of array capabilities. The JavaScript Array object is, as the name suggests, a means of defining arrays or linear ... (more)

Real-World AJAX Book Preview: Playing with User Interfaces

This content is reprinted from Real-World AJAX: Secrets of the Masters published by SYS-CON Books. To order the entire book now along with companion DVDs for the special pre-order price, click here for more information. Aimed at everyone from enterprise developers to self-taught scripters, Real-World AJAX: Secrets of the Masters is the perfect book for anyone who wants to start developing AJAX applications. Playing with User Interfaces For a long time user interface development has gotten something of a bum rap with the programming community, in great part because such programming... (more)

Real-World AJAX Book Preview: Digging into the XInclude Binding

This content is reprinted from Real-World AJAX: Secrets of the Masters published by SYS-CON Books. To order the entire book now along with companion DVDs for the special pre-order price, click here for more information. Aimed at everyone from enterprise developers to self-taught scripters, Real-World AJAX: Secrets of the Masters is the perfect book for anyone who wants to start developing AJAX applications. Digging into the XInclude Binding The XInclude Binding serves as a good example showcasing how such bindings can be created. If you are familiar with XBL bindings, the one aspe... (more)

AJAX on the Enterprise

In Star Trek, Scotty – James Montgomery Scott – was my favorite character, perhaps inevitably. Spock was always the cool and collected uber-genius, inscrutable and forced into an emotional straightjacket, and while the parallels to the real politik of the time are obvious, to me Spock has always been the epitome of the pure ivory tower researcher. Scotty, on the other hand, was the enginee , in many ways the ultimate hacker. Spock may have been able to tell you what properties of dilithium would induce warp speed, but Scotty knew exactly how to crack the damn crystals... (more)

The Real Niche forWeb Services: Part 2

Last month, in Part 1 of this article, I cautioned about the potential invasiveness of Web services. It's a scary thought that companies could have that much personal information about their customers, but I added then that there are some advantages to Web services, especially in the area of business-to-business. This month I focus on these advantages. The Last Gold Rush Business-to-business, or B2B, may have been the last gold rush of the 20th century. And like the gold rushes of yore, usually the guy selling the shovels is the only one making the real profit. Web services would... (more)