Andrew Goodricke

I’ve been working with Ajax recently, I’ve been particularly impressed with how potentially powerful Ajax is.  Having a good knowledge of PHP and HTML myself has helped when it came to learning this amalgamation of technologies.  If you’re not aware what Ajax is, It stands for Asynchronous JavaScript And XML (eXtensible Markup Language).

A good introduction to it can be found on Harry Maugans in tutorial AJAX Made Easy, in addition to that the SAMS Teach Yourself in 10 Minutes have got a great little book on Ajax which explains it all really well from beginner to intermediate.

Back to the point in hand, I wanted an animated gif to display while I was collecting data from the server. That is precisely what I got when I came upon the Ajax Loading gif Generator. You can customise the gifs produced from the type of animation to the fore and background colours - A great little tool!

Woohoo!  My first post at andrewgoodricke.com.  The purpose of the blog is for me to keep track of any useful sites, information and what I’ve been up to.  A bit more about me can be found on my about page.

I’ve not had an amazing amount of experience with WordPress to date so I just downloaded a pre-created theme that I liked the look of, I will try and get my own design done at some point but I feel this will be here for the forseable future.