Rafael Dohms

Author’s note: This article was first published in my AJAX Column (AjaxOnline.com.br) in Portuguese where my intended audience is a group of beginners learning about the AJAX initiative. Since it turned out to be a really interesting article I decided to translate it and share it with a wider audience.

I wondered where I should begin explaining AJAX and finally decided I should begin explaining what’s behind it and how it came around, so everyone knows where we are coming from.

Ajax, web 2.0, RSS, if you’ve never heard any of these terms than something is wrong, you are either way behind in web technologies or not serious enough about web development. The concept of Web 2.0 is what we may call the “father” of the latest trends in web applications, where various technologies are used to improve the user’s experience, but what is the concept? Continue Reading »

Recently I published an updated version of my auto-complete (Google suggest) script compatible with IE and FireFox and based on PHP/AJAX.

After publishing version 1.0, I had some feedback from people who downloaded an tested it, so now I decided to correct some of the bugs that were found, and make a few improvements also. So now I’m going to publish version 1.1, check out some of the changes I made. Continue Reading »