So you've decided to become a programmer. That's a great decision, but let us ask you a little question: do you know where to start? There are — as usual — thousands of place on the web where you'll find hermetic references, cryptic cheat sheets or endless keywords lists. Maybe reading this article should be a good starting point.

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Are you into AJAX? What a silly question, of course you are! Who isn't, those days? AJAX is everywhere, and it fuels the so-called "web 2.0". So even if you're not into it, you have to deal with it. That's the story.

Now the wonderful thing about AJAX is that, since everybody does it, there are tons and tons of scripts, modules, libraries, snippets and frameworks available. And the place to start looking for those is certainly AjaxRain.

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When you think of javascript frameworks, you think Prototype, Mootools, JQuery or YUI. But hopefully, the web 2.0 world is moving and changing fast, and new players show up everyday. So now, when thinking javascript framework, you'll have to think Ext JS as well.

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Google launches a new activity called Google App Engine that actually works as an application cloud service. It provides the environment, the infrastructure and the storage needed to develop and deploy new applications. In other words, it's designed to completely house your project, and to integrate easily with Google services. It's been opened up to the first 10,000 developers that request an account — free of charge. And, in the pure Google-style, it's expected to remain free — at least to some extent.

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There are a multitude of date-picker scripts available on the internet but, with only a few exceptions, they all require either the use of a nasty pop-up window or the inclusion of an embedded JavaScript block within the HTML. That's no good practice.

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