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March 5, 2010 at 3: 04 PM something like that will now allow u to login to facebook where the use of ajax is intensive.
Run A Free Proxy Through The Google App Engine | Lifehacker Australia 2010
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Still a decent effort even if sneaking suspicion that live. com type ajax is underneath all this.
Property.com.au + MyHome.com.au vs Trulia.com + Zillow.com Ben Barren 2007
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Alot of people think ajax is the do-all and end-all.
Ajaxian Love not Everything Ben Barren 2005
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Alot of people think ajax is the do-all and end-all.
Archive 2005-10-01 Ben Barren 2005
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Sir John Harington, godson of Queen Elizabeth, developed something he called an ajax—a play on words jakes was slang for a privy at the time—with several friends while gathered together in 1594 at Wardour Castle.
Flushed W. Hodding Carter 2006
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Sir John Harington, godson of Queen Elizabeth, developed something he called an ajax—a play on words jakes was slang for a privy at the time—with several friends while gathered together in 1594 at Wardour Castle.
Flushed W. Hodding Carter 2006
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He showed a graph which mapped the sharp rise in popularity of the word "ajax" - or at least its newest incarnation - illustrating when the term was coined and its resultant acceptance into the language of web technology.
Smelly? 2005
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He showed a graph which mapped the sharp rise in popularity of the word "ajax" - or at least its newest incarnation - illustrating when the term was coined and its resultant acceptance into the language of web technology.
Archive 2005-11-01 2005
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Yup there's a lil shop out there called ajax and since everyone knows that specialized are the best, light years beyond trek obvi, and only the silliest of Asspenites would ride a trek!
The More Things Change...Part II: True Greatness BikeSnobNYC 2009
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Facebook runs mostly on ajax, which is very less server costs, and they can cut bandwidth further at their discretion.
Facebook “Definitely” Raising Capital This Year; Google Considered Acquisition Michael Arrington 2005
oroboros commented on the word ajax
A cleaning product, not just a Java application, or mythical Greek hero!
July 28, 2007
john commented on the word ajax
Small nit to pick: ajax isn't a Java application, it's a set of JavaScript-based techniques to make web applications more responsive. Despite the similar names, Java and JavaScript have almost nothing to do with each other.
Given its current near-ubiquity in some circles, ajax is pretty young: Microsoft invented the underlying technology (xmlhttprequest) around 2000, but the techniques weren't widely used until Jesse James Garret wrote about them (and coined the term 'ajax') in 2005.
July 28, 2007
oroboros commented on the word ajax
When I entered it I didn't even have any idea it was anything but a brand name, and only saw otherwise after a quickie google search. I hereby retract all Java reference and admit to voluminous ignosis regarding same.
July 28, 2007
Telofy commented on the word ajax
There was a wikipedia link missing here.
September 29, 2008
ecbrenner commented on the word ajax
=asynchronous JavaScript and XML. As an initialism, it should be rendered in all caps.
March 27, 2009