Two Years of Agile Ajax: Web Killed Off GUI Techniques Just in Time for Ajax to Need them Again

I launched this blog just a little over two years ago, on March 21st, 2006. Appropriately enough, my first post was about User Experience (UXD) and Ajax. The blog has come a long way since then -- we've added another full-time blogger (Brain Dillard), published nearly 700 articles of original Ajax and Agile related content, and covered the major new innovations in Ajax and Web 2.0 -- but in many ways Ajax technology is still struggling with the same issues that I wrote about back then:

As it stands, Ajax is still in its infancy (or in its wild west phase -- pick your metaphor), and Bill's simple three part "patterns" are emblematic of this.