Description:

As a follow up to last month's high-level overview of "Ajax" as a toolbox of technologies and approaches, this month we'll get into the nitty gritty of some things you can accomplish with what we've learned, and also we'll highlight some emerging techniques.

As always, the format will be open-discussion, with general content presentation/facilitation by presenters Joe McCann and Kyle Simpson. There will be plenty of coding, hacking, and discussion. And, of course we have drinks and revelry afterwards!

Bring your laptops, your favorite Ajax techniques, questions, real-world applications, etc, and get ready to dive deep into what you can really do with Ajax.

Topics to be discussed:

• Multi-part Ajax responses - We'll talk about some code and conventions you can use to transfer HTML, JSON, and other data back, in separate "chunks", in response to one Ajax request. Reduction in server and client Javascript complexity, and better separation of logic and markup, are the primary goals.

• Request Headers and REST - How to effectively utilize (and mimick) signaling to a server what response type a request is expecting (ATOM, JSON, etc).

• Loading script logic dynamically - We'll talk about a little module written to help load scripts asynchronously, on-demand, with basic (but effective) emulation of browser "blocking" to wait for dependent scripts to load before loading subsequent scripts. Get rid of all those messy, inefficient manual SCRIPT tags and load your scripts the cool way.

1206 W 43rd Street Austin TX 78756

Here's a map: http://bit.ly/cMtza

Parking is on the street, or you can take the #3 bus or #338 bus, both of which have stops close by.

Afterwards, the discussion carries on one block away at The Draught House, where it just happens to be pint night so you can get your beer fix here.

Map of Draught House: http://bit.ly/blsxp

Any questions or suggestions, please feel free to contact Joe (@joemccann) or Kyle (@getify). Also, official group twitter: @AustinJavascrpt