master AJAX

I have been doing AJAX in minute proportions over the months but haven’t really got down to mastering the art. I don’t consider myself an AJAX expert but I get dis-heartened with often seeing the spaghetti code of supposedly “AJAX professionals”, making it virtually impossible to update their code without breaking something.

At the moment I’m reading AJAX in Action by Dave Crane et al. I’d recommend it to all spiring AJAXians as it demonstrates how to code in a non-spaghetti style by employing Design Patterns. I’m only on Chapter 3 but it’s looking good so far.

Today I’ve done my first steps with an application based on an AJAX solution.
It’s easiest than anyone can thought, you just have to now:
- basic DOM (objects in a web page).
- javascript.
- some server-side programming language to handle the petitions (mine is PHP).

Most of this things I’ve used in the past, now I’m just mixing!!

iam completly new to this subject.