It recently came to our attention that not everyone knows about two critical free tools for any type of AJAX development.
http://www.jslint.com/lint.html

http://www.crockford.com/javascript/jsmin.html
JSMin is a tool for compressing Javascript. It will strip your white-space and comments so that all that is left is code….you know, the good stuff. It does not obfuscate the code, just […]

ajaxpatterns.org has a nice listing of AJAX frameworks; everythign from .Net to Coldfusion, from Java to Smalltalk and C++.
http://ajaxpatterns.org/Ajax_Frameworks
There is even the beginnings of a Comparison Matrix.

Years ago, Adam Bosworth coined the term DHTML - as in Dynamic HTML. Jesse James Garrett re-labeled DHTML as “AJAX” If you have not seen this clip - you should. Watch it and pay close attention to what is said, as well as what is not said. Notice that AJAX is […]