AJAX

Like the rest of the web development world, I've been inspired with AJAX after seeing Google Maps reading a few articles and getting my feet wet with AJAX this summer. I think AJAX is the single most disruptive force to shake up the status quo of software development in the past 10-years since the web became critical. At least that is my initial reaction. In the next 12-months, we'll see how well this technology integrates itself into the IT world. My vote is that it will become significant. It may even force all various browsers to come to some type of Javascript behavioral common ground.