Greg Winton

This content is reprinted from Real-World AJAX: Secrets of the Masters published by SYS-CON Books. To order the entire book now along with companion DVDs for the special pre-order price, click here for more information. Aimed at everyone from enterprise developers to self-taught scripters, Real-World AJAX: Secrets of the Masters is the perfect book for anyone who wants to start developing AJAX applications. Leading-Edge Best Practices The dream is always the same. The "Big Idea" comes to me as a bolt out of the blue. I sit down at my computer, install Ruby on Rails, and in a few hours I've published a working prototype on the World Wide Web. A message to this forum, an entry on that blog, an e-mail to a few friends, and WHAM! I have users. My users post messages to these forums, entries to those blogs, text messages to their friends, and the God of Network Effects b... (more)

Real-World AJAX Book Preview: Users as Testers

This content is reprinted from Real-World AJAX: Secrets of the Masters published by SYS-CON Books. To order the entire book now along with companion DVDs for the special pre-order price, click here for more information. Aimed at everyone from enterprise developers to self-taught scripters, Real-World AJAX: Secrets of the Masters is the perfect book for anyone who wants to start developing AJAX applications. Users as Testers In a traditional software development environment, there's a clear separation between developers, testers, and users. Programmers create the application, the... (more)