IBM developerWorks has a great article by Kristopher William Zyp on the tools and methods used to analyze Ajax application performance titled Ajax performance analysis. It provides a good overview of what affects an Ajax based application, the tools to probe these aspects and actions developers can take to help speed things up. Much of [...]

A great podcast interview by the folks at Ajaxian with some guys from 280 North, the creators of 280Slides.com. They discuss some details and motivations behind their new Cappuccino JavaScript framework and their new “Objective” version of JavaScript they call Objective-J. The guys at 280 North come from an Apple development background, so they took [...]

Google has created the Ajax Libraries API. Basically Google is calling it a content distribution network and loading architecture for the most popular open source JS libraries. These libraries include:

jQuery
prototype
script.aculo.us
MooTools
dojo

If you use the Google JS API, you can do stuff like:

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<script src="http://www.google.com/jsapi"></script>
<script>
// Load jQuery
google.load("jquery", "1");
 
// on page [...]

A great podcast via IT Conversations, Technometria series. In depth discussion of Ajax implementations, design considerations and toolkits. It offers some great insight into Ajax application development by a veteran in field.
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In this edition of Technometria, Phil and Scott talk to Joseph Smarr, the Chief Platform Architect at Plaxo. Plaxo makes great use [...]

Dojo, jQuery, Prototype or Yahoo UI

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