JavaScript, even more so than VB, has to be the Rodney Dangerfield of programming languages. I'm going to blow whatever credibility I might have by saying "I actually like programming in JavaScript." I'm actually building a lot of the screens in StoryTeller with JavaScript running in a WebBrowser control because I think I can do dynamic layout much faster with JavaScript than a WinForms screen. Besides, the point of a "side" project is to do stuff you don't get to do at your day job.
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Edit-in-Place with Ajax by Drew McLellan Back on day one we looked at using the Prototype library to take all the hard work out of making a simple Ajax call. While that was fun and all, it didn’t go that far towards implementing something really practi
CPAINT (Cross-Platform Asynchronous INterface Toolkit) is a true AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript XML) and JSRS (JavaScript Remote Scripting) implementation that supports both PHP and ASP/VBscript.
This tutorial shows you how to feed data directly from a Google Spreadsheet rather than from a file. The advantage of this is that you can edit your data in Google Spreadsheets' user interface. Here is an example.