Today's (November 3, 2005) Wall Street Journal has a nice article about AJAX 
on the front page of the Marketing section.  This won't tell you anything 
technical about the programming technique, but it will tell your customers 
what you can do for them with this technology.  And that might help them 
open their wallets to you.

When I first started learning about computers in the late 1960's, we had 
dumb terminals connected to a large (pause for laughter) central computer, 
and we ran our programs on it under what was called TSO for "time sharing 
option".  When I look at today's web enabled applications, I think I am 
seeing the same basic TSO idea all over again.  Add AJAX technology and ever 
increasing bandwidth connections to this and I don't see how custom 
commercial software's future can go anywhere but into this WAA model.  And 
to that I add my thanks to all of you who have helped bring me up to speed 
on WAA.

Bruce Anderson
Houston, TX

Bruce,

> to that I add my thanks to all of you who have helped bring me up to speed 
> on WAA.

Well, if I was responsible in any way for that, my pleasure.  If I wasn't,
then I'll try harder next time .

Sander and I are working very hard to make the entire WAA/Xb2.NET
experience much nicer, so watch this space.

Regards,

Phil Ide

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Consistency: The last refuge of the unimaginative

Bruce,

> And to that I add my thanks to all of you who have helped bring me up to speed
> on WAA.

Its good to know you're comfortable with WAA

I still wear your Texas Cowboy hat 

Hannes

Bruce
    At the risk of putting a dent in your available time (it certainly 
did that to mine), if you thought AJAX was neat you should also have a 
look at Ruby on Rails.
Try starting here: 
http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/onlamp/2005/01/20/rails.html?page=1
It didn't take me much more than an hour to download everything, install 
it, and run through the tutorial. Even if you never use Ruby, it is an 
interesting exercise that will make you think about how you program. 
It's possible that I found it fascinating because it made me realize 
that, being a lazy programmer, I actually already use some of the same 
concepts in my own programming (no matter what language).
If you decide you want to know more, try this next:
http://www.informit.com/guides/content.asp?g=webdesign&seqNum=230&rl=1
And if you decide that you want to never have time to work again, let me 
know and I'll give you a couple of other links!
Garry

Bruce Anderson wrote:
> Today's (November 3, 2005) Wall Street Journal has a nice article about AJAX 
> on the front page of the Marketing section.  This won't tell you anything 
> technical about the programming technique, but it will tell your customers 
> what you can do for them with this technology.  And that might help them 
> open their wallets to you.
> 
> When I first started learning about computers in the late 1960's, we had 
> dumb terminals connected to a large (pause for laughter) central computer, 
> and we ran our programs on it under what was called TSO for "time sharing 
> option".  When I look at today's web enabled applications, I think I am 
> seeing the same basic TSO idea all over again.  Add AJAX technology and ever 
> increasing bandwidth connections to this and I don't see how custom 
> commercial software's future can go anywhere but into this WAA model.  And 
> to that I add my thanks to all of you who have helped bring me up to speed 
> on WAA.
> 
> Bruce Anderson
> Houston, TX 
> 
>