Well, after the Round-up of 50 AJAX Toolkits and Frameworks which I mentioned recently, here is a fairly decent list of AJAX tutorials from Max Kiesler again. There are 90 of them, so take your time!
Month: May 2006
It’s not often that I get excited over an email client. Honestly!
However, since discovering RoundCube (or rediscovering as it were, because I had known about the project for about 6 months prior to becoming a convert), I just love how everything comes together on this open-source project still in 0.1-beta phase. RoundCube is an IMAP webmail client which has an AJAX-based user interface that is both user-friendly and responsive – not unlike GMail – and no redundant features, I may add. A quick installation guide of RoundCube on your server can be found here; here is another guide on installation for Site5 servers.
Finally, a good list of Web 2.0 softwares.
Ajax seems to be all the rage for web development right now. No, in case you were wondering, an Ajax is not some kind of cleaning kit that you use to clean your monitor or CPU case… 🙂
Ajax actually stands for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML.
If you are still clueless after the previous sentence, just think of Ajax as providing a set of tools which form the building blocks for interactive applications (think GMail) that you can access through your browser. This allows, for example, the “drag and drop” that we are so familiar on any Windows PC on a web page that you visit, and is certain to revolutionalize how we go about everyday tasks in the near future. It is already quite conceivable that an entire word processor that is responsive can be built as a web application thanks to Ajax. Well, Max Kiesler has posted a Round-up of 50 AJAX Toolkits and Frameworks. This is an impressive resource which hopefully I will get to explore more one of these rainy days.