Published on 2005-08-23 20:17:15

FireAnt is communications part of the AJAX framework shared by Hotmail, Start.com, MyMSN and MSN Spaces, Omar shahine posted on his blog the experience to deliver new architecture to Hotmail. They studyed different possibilities :

1. Modification of the current C/C++ ISAPI architecture to support a hybrid ASP model.

2. .NET rewrite for the DataLayer and BusinessLayer and XML/XSLT for the PresentationLayer

3. Same as #2 but the Presentation layer would be JavaScript, XMLHTTP, and DHTML/CSS. This now has the fancy name, AJAX.

After much deliberating, we chose #3, and started running. For 4 weeks basically 1 PM, a developer and an intern built a prototype, and then the real thing he said. I noticed that AJAX developers are today hired by big firms such microsoft, yahoo, google ... Just send your resume if interested ! I've seen at least 3 AJAX job offers this month only.

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