Articles tagged ‘ajax’

Silicon Valley is chock-full of Web 2.0 startups today. And these startups are using open source big-time.

Ever since the first Web application was written, developers have attempted to create dynamic user interfaces that offer an interactive experience, much like desktop applications. Traditional Web applications feel clumsy and unresponsive because every update to the interface involves a full roundtrip to the server and back. In this article, we will see how AJAX, a recent Web development technique, tackles this problem.

Web 2.0, the next generation of the Web is a force to reckon with. And corporations are noticing it. The latest in Web products and services are ready to go into the enterprise.

The O’Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) in Portland this year witnessed more than 2000 hackers, geeks and entrepreneurs demonstrating the phenomenal growth of open source.