There and Back Again

An AJAX training course covering basic usage.

Hands-on, instructor-led Ajax training classes delivered at client sites worldwide

Short tutorial covering how to use Rails built in AJAX features. Covers the basic setup, link_to_remote, form_remote_tags, and observe_field. Also gives a the standard what is AJAX bit and paragraph on when to use AJAX.

Extension of an earlier tutorial showing basic text replacement. Lots of code shown but not much in the way of explanation. Includes commented javascript code with a decent Cross Browser XMLHttpRequest implementation.

Introduction to using Sajax in php. Shows a small example and walks through the code.

Introduction to using JPSpan. Shows a small example and walks through the code.

Article focus's heavily on getting the actual validation done, XMLHttpRequest is used, but the actual implementation of looks a little light weight on error handling and cross browser coverage. The validation code is simple enough and easy to understand but I don't think I would want to build my sites validation off this example. The code in php or asp is a nice touch, and there is a working example to download.

Well written article, if your interested in AjaxAC you should start with this. It seems to use best practices of developing with AjaxAC so it will be a good model to follow in future development. Its light on the overall overview of how the toolkit works but you can follow its model to build your own small app. The example app is a google suggest clone.