ASP Classic Programming Still Alive

Today i found several articles which are talk about asp programming (ASP 3.0) and state that classic asp was dead, i personaly do not agree, please dissagree, if the reason were the development process, yes asp was no longer developed by microsoft since they released .NET, but there are many reason why i said classic asp is still alive

• there are milions website which are using asp scripting language as the core of their application and would not migrate it (i believe that).
• Many web developers still playing with classic asp programming
• Many new website build by classic asp programming (still)
• tutorials? help? there are many of them on the web

Classic asp programming no longer popular, yes thats true, i myself believe that some of the reason are:
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ajaxed 0.3 Released – ajax class for classic asp scripting

michal gabrukiewicz the author of webdevbros.net continue his efforts in developing ajax class for classic asp scripting, he has released the new version of ajaxed. here are the new features of ajaxed 0.3

• now working with prototype 1.6
• working with new version of JSON utility class 1.4 (JSON class for classic asp)
• loading indicator bug fixed. on the prior version it used to disappear if page scroll
• loading indicator now with no styles defined. so we should define our own style in the css class “ajaxLoadingIndicator”
• more test have been added also for recordsets (thanks michal i was asked you about this before )
• AJAXED_DBCONNECTION now defined in the config

since the first release on July 2nd 2007 ajaxed has become a buzz word for classic asp fans (at least i realize that am not the only one who are not yet jumping out to .NET) and on the next version (ajaxed 0.2) michal has added a lot of cool functionality on it such as: Database class, stringOperations class and put the files into separate directory for modular purpose, and after this new version i found no reason to jump out to .NET

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JSloader ondemand library new way of organizing javascript library

Jsloader was developed by Dov Katz, Imran Ahmad and Aaron Satlow as part of a hosted Enterprise AJAX solution, but what the hell is jsloader? is it just like other hundreds javascript library? well the developer themselves explained what actually jsloader “the on demand javascript library” is.

JSLoader is a dead-simple, non-intrusive “Javascript-on-demand” packaging convention which helps developers and the internet community rapidly develop and prototype applications without the headache of figuring out the witches’ brew of files that need to be copied, included, etc.

It is more about re-organizing AJAX libraries in a consistent and predictable manner, so we can load the library programmaticaly
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Flickr Hack The JSON Way get flickr photo without flickr API

Christian Heilmann has written an article about how to get Flickr photos into JavaScript solutions without having to resort to using the full API. This article was part of his presentation at the Open Hack Day in India and has been featured in ajaxian, but christian has put a note in using this method

As this is a hack you will only get the latest 20 photos, if you need more detailed data like restricted to sets or more at once you’ll need to resort to the flickr API.

Here are the code snippets:
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