This week you’ll learn about the individual building blocks of Ajax and how they fit together to form the architecture of an Ajax application. Later on, you’ll examine these components in more detail, finally assembling them into a working Ajax application. By Phil Ballard and Michael Moncur. 1013 Continued here: Anatomy of an Ajax Application

On the server side, you can improve performance by: Optimizing parallel downloads, caching frequently used objects, using HTTP compression, deploying delta encoding and rewriting URIs with mod_rewrite. By Andrew B. King. 0825 Read the original post: Advanced Web Performance Optimization

Though it tends to get treated poorly, HTTP isn’t a dumb file-transfer protocol. It allows you to specify an intention with your requests (GET/POST, with PUT and DELETE available) and offers authentication. The focus of this article, however, is about caching. By Marijn Haverbeke. 0730 Here is the original post: Giving Caches a Chance