The web development, web technologies and the thinking of the web programmers has been developing at a very rapid pace. New technologies and new trends in the development have become very common in this space. The web development is coming closer and closer to the desktop development as the time passes by. However, one major limitation that web developers are facing all over the world is ? how to change a part of the webpage without actually reloading the whole webpage? If this question can be answered then almost websites and desktops are comparable and users of web sites will be very happy to use them.



This problem has been well addressed by a new technology called AJAX. AJAX professional programmers can make websites look just like desktops with the help of this technology. AJAX professional programmers can make a request to the web server to reload a portion of the web page without actually reloading the whole web page. This has created a real big buzz in the world of web development. Suddenly, the demand for the AJAX professional programmers has gone up quite consistently. Now AJAX professional programmers are on the highly paid and most sought for, web developers.

Google Inc., is supporting AJAX professional programmers and using AJAX in a very gig way in all its products. Take GMAIL, Google Suggestions, Google Videos or any other product it is making use of AJAX technology. According to Google, the usage of this technology has greatly increased the experience of their users and made many of them their loyal customers. Hence, it is respecting AJAX technology and AJAX professional programmers. It is been told that more than ninety percent of Google's web developers are AJAX professional programmers.

If you want to become AJAX professional programmer, then you first have to master some web programming language. Some language; like Java, .NET, PHP or any other popular web programming language. After learning a language you should start with the fundamentals of AJAX technology. When you perfectly understand the fundamentals then you can start thinking of using AJAX technology in your favorite web programming language.

There are some toolkits to help you in making your life easy as an AJAX professional programmer. The most popular of them is SAJAX (Simple AJAX toolkit). It is totally written in PHP web programming language. Deep down, SAJAX also works just like the AJAX technology. How ever, SAJAX will provide you with a lot of abstraction. There is no need to bother about all the technical issues that come up with the AJAX technology while using SAJAX technology as the higher level functions which are provided with the tool kit. This makes the life of you as the AJAX professional programmer easy.

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