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    "title": "AJAX Is Interesting, But The Basics Are Better",
    "author": "pmjones",
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    "created": "2006-09-19 02:17:11 UTC",
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    "html": "<p>I had the good luck to share a cab back to the airport with <a href=\"http://netevil.org/\">Wez Furlong</a> after php|works. Wez had presented a new talk about how to work with email properly (jokingly subtitled \"Not PDO\" by everyone there), and was curious to know how it was received. I replied that I liked it, but struggled for a moment on \"why\" ... and then it hit me: the reason I liked it was that it was about a fundamental operation that still seems to trip developers up regularly.</p>\n<p>Although I told <a href=\"http://blog.calevans.com/\">Cal Evans</a> when he interviewed me that the next technology I'm really interested in is AJAX (particularly its implementation in <a href=\"http://paul-m-jones.com/blog/?p=225\">Protaculous</a>), I'm not as excited by it as everyone else seems to be. I think it's neat, but good grief, if wide swaths of developers can't do <a href=\"http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3631831\">input filtering</a> properly, what good can adding AJAX do? Get the basics right first, then you can do <a href=\"http://adactio.com/journal/959\">progressive enhancement</a> as you go.</p>\n"
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