AJAX Fight Night
Introduction
First up, I have to mention that my first experience in the programming world was with C# .NET. I thought that I would never move to another language never mind leaving the .NET framework.I started working at WhiteWallWeb and the oddity language PHP4. Coming from a completely object oriented approach to the scripting PHP4 pattern really shocked my system – “How clever must you be working with 4000 lines of “if’s” and “else’s” with the occasional “switch case”?” When PHP5 arrived I was back in my comfort zone. We’ve even built our own framework – Muffin. Working with PHP’s unique multiple array structure with the JSON library and the Prototype JavaScript library made me think I was invincible.
Then Ruby on Rails came along…
