Ajax - A disruptive web programming approach

Eventhough the notion of XMLHttp and using Javascript asynchronous call backs has been there for quiet a while no one has fully put efforts to fully utilize the power of these in the real world applications. That was past after seeing some of the applications release by Google over the year( Google suggest, Google maps, GMail ...), I have been wondering how this is going to transform the web programming world. Now customers are going to expect the same from every other company. Its not going to be the same web programming world. The revolution has already began and Google has pioneered/propelled it and you follow it or you will be wiped off.

I came across this library which can be used in .NET. for implementing similar architecture of google.
below are the releavant links to know more.
http://weblogs.asp.net/mschwarz/
http://ajax.schwarz-interactive.de/
http://www.adaptivepath.com/publications/essays/archives/000385.php

Testing and QA related articles

Satisfice.com operated by James Bach has a good collection of articles in testing and software quality assurance. I am trying to get a balance between the development team and the quality assurance team. This week I have decided to go over and do some R&D related with QA & testing. Stay tuned for more links and comments about the articles I am going over.

Codesmith for code generation.

I have been searching for a good template based code generator and recently zeroed in on codesmith. The similarity of codesmith to asp.net style coding is one of the key decision to go with it. Its been a pretty easy process. It has really helped us eliminate the repetetive code. The starting set of templates provided with the codesmith provides you with a solid examples and pretty much our changes were very minimum. Recently the codesmith 3.0 version has been released

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