Douglas Crockford, in a four part series on Yahoo! Video, gives a great overview of the Javascript programming language and clears ups some misconceptions along the way.
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Bryan Kaiser & Michael Haynie do the news and a hefty discussion of Model-View-Controller (MVC) frameworks, what they are, why they are useful in the development of ColdFusion applications, and discuss the Model-Glue MVC framework.
Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. It’s a whole new way of looking at the web where HTML page makes asynchronous calls to the server using JavaScript and loads the data in bits and pieces as needed. Ajax is not a new technology. It’s a new developing approach, based on the following existing technologies: XHTML, CSS, DOM, XML, XSLT and XMLHttpRequest.
ColdFusion, a key technology behind rapid application development, has been a much maligned technology in the web development arena for sometime now. However, through the efforts of Ray Camden a ColdFusion Developer Center has been created on the Yahoo Developer Network. This is great news for ColdFusion and follows on the back of the integration of the Yahoo User Interface (YUI) Library into the version 8 release of ColdFusion codenamed Scorpio. The YUI is one of the best JavaScript libraries out there and includes great documentation.