Mastering Ajax, Part 4: Exploiting DOM for Web response

Ajax, can't get enough of em. Well, Ajax is very new (relative to other technologies) so use with great caution. This is part 4 of IBM Ajax tutorial. I think they use dojo. Quite nice.

The great divide between programmers (who work with back-end applications) and Web programmers (who spend their time writing HTML, CSS, and JavaScript) is long standing. However, the Document Object Model (DOM) bridges the chasm and makes working with both XML on the back end and HTML on the front end possible and an effective tool. In this article, Brett McLaughlin introduces the Document Object Model, explains its use in Web pages, and starts to explore its usage from JavaScript.

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Embedded.com - Avoiding the most common software development goofs

Kinda a good read for you all here. More and more i found that programming a system is easy. Maintaning one isn't.

As soon as we started programming, we found to our surprise that it wasn't as easy to get programs right as we had thought. Debugging had to be discovered. I can remember the exact instant when I realized that a large part of my life from then on was going to be spent in finding mistakes in my own programs.

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