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I went to the Get Started Using Ajax workshop with Thomas Fuchs in London yesterday, and despite having used minimal Ajax and script.aculo.us effects before, learned quite a lot.
Thomas started off discussing the background of the technology, and wasn’t scared to dive into real examples, with PHP and Rails. He explained how the Ajax call works, and also discussed the pros and cons of using JavaScript libraries, such as Dojo and script.aculo.us, against using more lean server-oriented abstractions such as Sajax.
What was very interesting was his section on real world examples. The pr…
