Some info about a little event you may not be familiar with… AJAXWorld Conference & Expo 2006 is being held October 2-4 in the Santa Clara Convention Center.

I find myself longing for the old days, when I could design a web site in 5 minutes on a Sunday and then go play golf for the rest of the afternoon, and still collect a full week of salary for services rendered.

Using the dynamic features of Ajax coding for a web-based application can also be a secure experience for users.

Hits eventually yielded to pageviews when it came to counting web traffic, but the growing usage of Ajax technologies that refresh content without triggering a new pageview could bury that metric.

The Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP) has seen significant growth as a choice for desktop application builders.

A recent survey conducted by Evans Data Corp. shows that the adoption of Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (AJAX) is on the rise, especially in emerging markets.

IT industry analysts Gartner published their 2006 hype cycle for emerging technologies this week – their predictions on what they think will be hot technologies in the near future, and what won’t be.

Mapsolute, the crew who brought you Maps24 (a very cool mapping service) have just today announced a new, open AJAX API. Some details…

I enjoyed this much more than the other other Ajax book I reviewed recently.

Google made a star of AJAX through its various applications. The swift, simple utility of Google Maps caught everyone’s attention, pushing them to explore its possibilities through the API. Enterprises also saw the value in it, not only making use of Google’s offerings, but set their teams on task for their own purposes.

Jeffrey Veen, echoing what Mike Arrington said (“Millions of people may have their first interaction with Ajax in the coming days.”), asked Is Ajax ready for prime time?

The first thing I should say is that this is a thoroughly enjoyable book. Ed Woychowsky is fun to read, and I could almost recommend this to you even if you have no interest in Ajax.

The Web development technique known as AJAX has a lot of fans, and it has earned a reputation as something that is sure to be commonplace in the future. But in the meantime, it is running into difficulties here and there; chief among these are accessibility issues. This particular problem is getting a lot of attention.

Web development has changed dramatically over the past year with the implementation of Asynchronous JavaScript + XML, also known as Ajax.

The Recruit.net search engine can find jobs for coders in China, analysts in Australia, and system administrators in Singapore.

Adobe released the final version of Flash Player 9 earlier this week, as well as Flex 2. This signals a continuation of the spread of Flash, which Adobe is promoting heavily for use in next-generation Web applications. It has already been implemented in a number of services, including some owned by Yahoo and Google.

AJAX (Asynchronous Javascript and XML) is a software platform to build and deploy Rich Internet Applications.(RIA) Some RIA applications include Flash, Java Applets and ActiveX Controls.

The newest plug-in for the NetBeans Integrated Developer Environment (IDE) allows developers to blend JavaScript with Java for their applications.

Yet another company has joined the recently formed Open AJAX Alliance, an industry group focused on promoting and spreading AJAX. ICEsoft will stand by established (and esteemed) members such as Borland, the Dojo Foundation, Google, IBM, the Mozilla Corporation, Novell, Oracle, Red Hat, Yahoo, and Zimbra.

The good news about Ajax technology in web pages is how it allows for the updating of content within the page without performing a full browser refresh; that’s the bad news too.

Google has released a downloadable beta version of its AJAX Search API, a javascript library that allows webmasters to embed inline Google searches (Web, local, video, and blog) in web pages, blogs, and other applications alongside existing content.