Under the header “AJAX: Revolution or hype-fest?” Sitepoint has a small write-up on AJAX in this weeks newsletter from which i cull this interesting quote:
Without giving too much away, our meeting with O’Reilly revealed
that technical book publishers are targetting AJAX as the hot
topic for the end of this year, with no less than six separate
book titles planned for release in the coming months from
various publishers.
That’s six books people. So what’s an AJAX programmer anyway? Actually having experience building an app that uses XMLHTTPRequest counts of course but if you know your way around the DOM with JS, have a reasonable knowledge of CSS and XML and you know how to build a basic proxy in one or more programming languages (preferably PHP and… Ruby?) you should have all the bagage you need to get started.