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 […]

Check out
this talk on Google Video for an introdocution to XML11.

Buttonator is a cool AJAX app, here’s a blurb from the folks at Buttonator.com:

The Buttonator is a 90’s idea with 00’s twist - professional looking buttons in seconds. It utilises the latest Rails 1.1.2 release and the RMagick image processing library. A big thanks goes out to Rails team for an awesome framework and the […]

My name is Amanda White, from the team behind http://www.TheBroth.com, “the Global Mosaic”, a massively multiplayer Web 2.0 application based on Ajax, Php and Mysql.
The Global Mosaic is made of 1,000 colorful tiles that are shared by everyone. When someone moves a tile, others can instantly see it move on their screens!
Here’s our press […]

In a posting at C|Net, Google has formally entered the world of calendars and scheduling. The interface is nice, smooth, lots and lots and lots of AJAX code, combining all major patterns and techniques. Check it out!

Product Manager Carl Sjogreen, formely of BEA and WebLogic Workshop, has done a great job. Go […]

Firefox-only Word Processor (http://ajaxwrite.com/) is available for testing. Looks nice, but there are still some bugs. Definitely worth checking out!

Additionally, GooglePages has gone to Beta. There is an interesting screenshot here You can view the live site of the screenshot here.

So if you havent, please check out http://finance.google.com/. There is a lot of flash and AJAX running this service. Note how when you add/remove items from your portfolion, the page doesn’t reload completely, just the data sections that display your data. This is how traditional apps work, however, without AJAX, this would […]

Gab on OpenAJAX.net - This is really a marvelous idea. Great job people!