Some interesting links from the week

I have been so busy at work this past week I havn't had a chance to even think about my blog.  But it hasn't stopped me from finding some cool and/or interesting links on the web.

I have been looking into resources for AJAX.  I went to Borders yesterday and was looking through "Professional AJAX" from WROX.  It looked good but I found better resource from Rushi Vishavadia, AJAX Resources for Beginners.

Getting Started with AJAX - Author Aaron Gustafson takes you through writing a basic AJAX application (An address book). Lots of code there.

Mastering AJAX - This is a pretty good tutorial which gives you the nitty gritty basics, talks about cross browser compatibility which is really important with XmlHTTPRequest object in IE (stupid MSFT :-p) What I like about this tutorial is that it explains info in a very easy to understand manner and it also says why you need it. (Part 1 (introduction) of the tutorial is here)

Using AJAX with PHP and mySQL - Being a PHP Developer myself, this tutorial is really well written and very complete. Step by step instructions on how to go about working with the XMLHttpRequest object too.

XAJAX - Xajax is an open source PHP Library for building ajax based applications. xajax is very easy to use and damn powerful, allowing you to use php where you wouldnt unneccesarily use JavaScript. They have a very good tutorial here called Learn Xajax in 10 Minutes.

Another good tutorial by John Wiseman on Creating a mySQL connection with PHP and Ajax.(If the code seems too small copy and paste it intoyour favorite editor, or hit Ctrl + '+' on Firefox to increase font size)

Ajax Loading Indicators & Icons - You can make up your own indicator icons, but the ones provided are really nice and fancy.

Lastly, Max Keisler has a very comprehensive list Ajax tutorials, resources - from beginner to advanced.

Scott Hanselman had a couple of interesting articles about debugging/troubleshooting.

• Debugging the ASP.NET worker process running at 100%
• Tracking down a Trojan

To go along with the interesting links category Travis sent me this link the other day to a LASIK @ Home Kit.  I posted it on my forum with some "observations."

Remember that How to be a Rockstar Programmer post?  Well apparently there is some difference of opinion that is going around.

Lastly, and certainly not least Apple announced that they will ship a program called Boot Camp in their next release, Leopard, but a beta was pushed out earlier this week.  This really has alot of people excited.  Apple listened to "Bloggers" and provided them a way to dual-boot Windows and OSX on a Intel Mac.

Paul Thurrot has many many posts detailing his thoughts and experiences with Boot Camp.  I do agree with him that they should of made a boot loader menu show up on default rather then having to push and hold a option key to bring up the menu.

Still though didn't someone already do this with a IBM Laptop?