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Back in 2004 I drafted a content management system based on PHP and AJAX, featuring ideas borrowed from everywhere and that, all in all, formed a rather coherent set. I wrote the system in a couple of days, in my daily commuting between Lausanne and Geneva, and it was called Propano.

Today I have done a tongue-in-cheek presentation of AJAX to my colleagues, including the historic background, the technology and the buzzwords. It also includes some code samples, compatible with Firefox, showing how to implement a synchronous and an asynchronous connection with the XmlHttpRequest component.
I did the original presentation with Keynote, and all I can say [...]

Version: 1.0
Author: Adrian Kosmaczewski
Date: April 2007
Programming Languages: n/a
Tools: Keynote
Platforms: n/a
Presentation: ajax.zip
Samples: samples.zip
Licence: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.5
A presentation I’ve prepared about AJAX. The photographs come from Flickr, and are all available under a Creative Commons License. The diagrams and the overall flow and themes come from this presentation.

Version: 1.0
Author: Adrian Kosmaczewski
Date: May & June 2004
Programming Languages: JavaScript, cross-platform HTML, PHP 4.3, AJAX, XML
Tools: NeXT documentation, various text editors
Platforms: Web
Download: propano.zip
Live Demo: http://kosmaczewski.net/propano/
Licence: LGPL
Propano is an attempt to build a clone of the NeXT user interface with JavaScript, featuring AJAX connections to a PHP-based back end. Here’s the whole story about it.