Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications

I just came over a rather old article from Jesse James Garrett who explaines the principles of Ajax. However, it's still worth reading!! The article defines Ajax and explains the basic idea behind Ajax. Furthermore, a nice Q&A about Ajax is presented.

Google Web Toolkit 1.3 released: Open Source

Google released the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) version 1.3 under open source licence. See the GWT Blog entry or the site of GWT (including demos)

Categorized Ajax Tutorials

That's really the bulkiest list of Ajax tutorials I've ever seen. And the best thing is, each tutorial is categorized within the following categories:

Getting Started
Bookmarklets
Chat
Drag
and Drop
Dynamically Content Loading
Forms and Autocomplete
File
Uploader
Image/Display/Edit/Gallery/Lightbox/Slideshow
Keyword
Suggest
Live Search
Misc/General
CodingParadise
CodingParadise
Progress Bars
Rounded Corner
RSS
Shopping
Cart
Lists/Sorting
Tabbed Pages
Trees
Username
Availability
Voting

Check that out!!!

script.aculo.us - it's about the user interface, baby!

Web 2.0 is about user interface - script.aculo.us is about Web 2.0 development.

The web page says: "It provides you witheasy-to-use, cross-browser userinterface JavaScript libraries to makeyour web sites and web applications fly. What's inside? animation framework, drag and drop, Ajax controls, DOM utilities, and unit testing. It's an add-on to thef antastic Prototype framework."

script.aculo.us is used by sites such as Apple, Feedburner, Ruby on Rails, etc.

A collection of Ajax tutorials

I found huge list of Ajax tutorials in the blog on Ajaxmatters. Very great overview!!