Posted by harrisj
Wed, 20 Apr 2005 06:28:00 GMT
Congratulations, AJAX! As a piece of techno-jargon, you've really arrived. Buried deep within the article
An Update on Stuff That's Cool (Like Google's Photo Maps), there's the quote
The real importance of Google's map and satellite program, however, is not its impressive exterior but the novel technology, known as Ajax, that lies beneath. About that, and its implications for Google and other companies, there will be more to say in a future column.
Oh, James Fallows, you're such a tease! Still, it's nice to see AJAX getting the attention. And downright startling to see all the AJAX targeted AdSense entries on the right. For a recently coined term, this really has legs. Now to see if the hype and the interest leads to better websites too.
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Posted by harrisj
Thu, 07 Apr 2005 17:34:00 GMT
Not really, but that certainly seems to be the attitude of the first poster in the Signal Vs. Noise post Ajax Takes Off
Great, so someone coins a new phrase in a shitty effort to attach themselves to a concept that’s been used for several years. What about the developers that found this solution? Do you see them hitting dozens of blogs shamelessly promoting themselves? No, they’re working on the next cool idea that inevitably some loser will try to stamp there name.
This is where quite frankly most developers annoy me. There is a large fraction of the population that are averse to any hype or popularity or style by nature. And so, it leads to this insane posturing about street cred when others stumble across their favorite technology. And so they attack the polish, they smear the evangelists, and they even will destroy their favorite technology in order to save it.
Dude, whatever. Personally, I am quite glad to the coining of the term AJAX for the nimble bag of technologies that is XML, XHTML, Javascript, XmlHttpRequest, quick server-side components, etc. Nobody likes to pronounce XmlHttpRequest. Having a nice-punchy-if-somewhat-reductive term is useful, especially when pitching your website improvements to those in management who ultimately decide your projects. Yes, Ajax is a bit of hype, but it's useful hype. Embrace it.
Besides, any thing that can be a reference to Greek Mythology, a cleansing product, or a soccer team can't be that bad.
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