Hello again, I have been pretty busy this week and without internet access. But now I’m back and I’m glad to see some rise in the “Dance of the Beasts“.

I did some commenting sessions, and I ran out of ideas. Never mind, I will introduce you my new web site, it’s the English version of a Romanian culinary recipes blog, it’s based on good ol’ WordPress and it’s called Phancee Recipes (see [fan-see] pronunciation.

Another new project is the Blog Tycoon, I remember I was thinking several articles ago about the idea of blogging tycoon, and the tycoon game series. It will soon be open for contributions.

Other than that, I read John Cow’s “Building a business, not a blog“, and I discovered some interesting things about creating and promoting a blog in a short period of time.

If you’re still interested in what I did lately, visit my other sites, cgButterfly and ClubCafe Games.

Liz Strauss has started an experiment. As part of her Showcase Your Blog series, she will be using the future post feature in WordPress to publish a blog post a minute showcasing more than 250 blogs.

I’m already there, number 44, and so far the web did not break. It’s a very interesting experiment, and her blog will get lots of exposure in the future.

After playing a while with the demo, I decided to share the link. So here it is, FloorPlanner.com.

Buying a new home, rearranging your room, or moving into a new office? You can save time and have more fun if you lay out your ideas ahead of time.

Floorplanner is the easiest, quickest, and best looking way to create and share interactive floorplans. Using point-and-click, drag-and-drop tools, you can make your floor plan in minutes, and rearrange it as often as you want. Then you can save, send, and print your designs to share them, or place them on your own website.

It’s easy to use and works in almost any modern browser, no extra downloads required.

I decided to share all my eBooks on programming. This week is AJAX.

Ajax (asynchronous JavaScript and XML), or AJAX, is a group of interrelated web development techniques used for creating interactive web applications or rich Internet applications. With Ajax, web applications can retrieve data from the server asynchronously in the background without interfering with the display and behavior of the existing page. Data is retrieved using the XMLHttpRequest object or through the use of Remote Scripting in browsers that do not support it. Despite the name, the use of JavaScript, XML, and asynchrony is not required.

• Wrox – Professional AJAX
• Wrox – Professional AJAX – 2nd Edition
• Wiley – Hacking Google Maps and Google Earth
• Wiley – For Dummies – AJAX for Dummies
• Slides – Apache Con Asia 2006 – AJAX and PHP
• Slides – AJAX and Rich Internet Applications
• Sample – AJAX and PHP – Building Responsive Web Applications – Chapter 5
• Pragmatic – AJAX – A Web 2.0 Primer – v1
  
• Pragmatic – AJAX – A Web 2.0 Primer – v2
  
• Packt Publishing – AJAX and PHP – Building Responsive Web Applications
• Manning – AJAX in Action
• Article – AJAX Accessibility
• Apress – Foundations of AJAX
• Apress – Beginning AJAX with PHP – From Novice to Professional
• Apress – AJAX Patterns and Best Practices

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