Nicholas C. Zakas, author of Professional JavaScript for Web Developers and Professional Ajax, works at Yahoo! in Sunnyvale CA as a frontend engineer has been involved in web development since way back in 1996. Nicholas was nice enough to give me some of his time to answer some questions concerning JavaScript, Ajax, and web development in general.
Special thanks to Eric Pascarello, co-author of Ajax in Action for his great presentation on Ajax at our June 10th meeting. It was a great way to finish up our first season. Eric explained the basics of Ajax with real live examples as well as dissecting some of his own implementations. Ajax uses JavaScript as well as other current technologies to create some truly interactive web sites.
Here are his presentation slides (.pdf) for anybody who missed it.
Have a great summer and I'll see ya in September!
Jesse James Garret is a user experience expert and co-founder of adaptive path coined the phrase "Ajax", which gave a name to the implementation of exisiting technologies using JavaScript. In this interview he talks about how he came up with the name, his view of what Ajax is, usability issues and more.
