ppk's been one of my favourite JS developers for years so I was excited to see he was scheduled to be the 6th speaker on the 1st day of @mediaAjax. His talk focused around a genealogy application he was writing using Ajax/XHR-methods. I really enjoyed the "case study" approach (it was also very polite of him to use British royalty as his data source on this day, the Queen's 60th wedding anniversary, seeing as we were within shouting distance of her celebrations in Westminster Abbey!) His discussion of the "X" in Ajax -- the data transfer specification, whether to use XML, JSON, HTML or CSV -- was very clear and the reasons for choosing XML ("social", i.e. associated with the project and its people) were well and entertainingly explained.
It became clear during Q&A that he really needs a database and/or SQL/PHP developer. If you read this, ppk, I'm willing to help out! Turning the "relational" XML data underlying family trees into a relational database would be a fun student project...
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