Rob Gonda is an industry visionary and thought leader, speaks on emerging technologies conferences nationwide, and combines unique approaches to technology and marketing strategies. He is the former Editor-in-Chief of the AJAX Developer’s Journal, an Advanced Certified Coldfusion Developer, member of the Adobe Community Experts, frequent contributor to the CFDJ and ADJ, co-author of Real-World AJAX: Secrets of the Masters, author of AjaxCFC, holds a BS in computer science and engineering and an MBA with a specialization in entrepreneurship.
Rob recently joined Sapient from ichameleon/group/ where he was a founding partner and chief technical officer. He is part of the global technology leadership team, and brings with him over ten years of experience in web development and 360 marketing campaigns for clients such as Adobe, Coca-Cola, Guinness, Toyota, Taco Bell, NBC, and others.
He specializes in emerging technologies, marketing strategy, social media, and he is currently fascinated with rich internet applications, service oriented architecture, mobile, agile methodology, automation, behavioral targeting, multi-channel synergy, and identifying new trends.
Rob’s mission is to develop forward-thinking expertise that will ensure clients are always on par with rapidly changing technologies and maintain its ethos of evolving.
You can reach him at rob[at]robgonda[dot]com and read his blog is at http://www.robgonda.com
(October 7, 2005) - AJAX isn't a technology, or a language, and there's no
recipe to implement it; it's just a combination of various components to
achieve something you otherwise couldn't: asynchronous http requests.
However, since early 2005, when Google and Flickr popularized the concept,
its use has grown rapidly.
The name AJAX is short for Asynchronous JavaScript and XML. It uses the
JavaScript XMLHttpRequest function to create a tunnel from the client's
browser to the server and transmit information back and forth without having
to refresh the page. The data travels in XML format because it transmits
complex data types over clear text.
AJAX uses XHTML for the data presentation of the view layer, DOM, short for
Document Object Model, which dynamically manipulates th... (more)
Should you use the old iFrame tricks or the new XMLHttpRequest? There is not
better or worse when comparing these two techniques, but they are certainly
different. While both of them allow you to communicate with the server in the
background, you should choose the appropriate for your situation depending on
a few questions: Do you want the back-forward buttons to work? Do you plan to
per... (more)
AJAX can make the HTML user experience almost as pleasant as Flash. The main
advantage of Flash, in spite of its vector animations, is that you never
reload the page. Flash Remoting allows you to interface with the server in
the background and AJAX does exactly the same for HTML pages.
In my previous article, "What's AJAX?" (CFDJ, Vol. 7, issue 9), I covered the
basics of AJAX - everythin... (more)
ajaxCFC port for the Model-Glue FrameworkThe latest fad in the Model-Glue
list has been AJAX. How to incorporate Ajax requests to the Model-Glue
framework. Is it pointing directly to the model? To the controller? or going
thru the full cycle by pointing to index, then controller, model, back to the
controller, and passing arguments back to the view?
I ported ajaxCFC to work with Model-Glue... (more)
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Rob Gonda is an industry visionary and thought leader, speaks on emerging technologies conferences nationwide, and combines unique approaches to technology and marketing strategies. He is the former Editor-in-Chief of the AJAX Developer’s Journal, an Advanced Certified Coldfusion Developer, member of the Adobe Community Experts, frequent contributor to the CFDJ and ADJ, co-author of Real-World AJAX: Secrets of the Masters, author of AjaxCFC, holds a BS in computer science and engineering and an MBA with a specialization in entrepreneurship.
Rob recently joined Sapient from ichameleon/group/ where he was a founding partner and chief technical officer. He is part of the global technology leadership team, and brings with him over ten years of experience in web development and 360 marketing campaigns for clients such as Adobe, Coca-Cola, Guinness, Toyota, Taco Bell, NBC, and others.
He specializes in emerging technologies, marketing strategy, social media, and he is currently fascinated with rich internet applications, service oriented architecture, mobile, agile methodology, automation, behavioral targeting, multi-channel synergy, and identifying new trends.
Rob’s mission is to develop forward-thinking expertise that will ensure clients are always on par with rapidly changing technologies and maintain its ethos of evolving.
You can reach him at rob[at]robgonda[dot]com and read his blog is at http://www.robgonda.com
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