This is the second in the four-part series on Ajax functionality and usability patterns (Book: Part 4, pp 327-530).

The guest for this week is Dave Johnson of Nitobi (the Ajax component developers formerly known as E-Business Applications), widget guru and author of the upcoming Enterprise Ajax book. Dave helps me walk through the patterns and offers plenty of great insights along the way. We mention Dave’s recent presentation a couple of times; here’s the PDF.

This 54-minute podcast covers ten patterns of Ajax Architecture (Book: Chapter 15, pp 389-444):

Drag-And-Drop

Sprite

Popup

Malleable Content

Microlink

Portlet

Status Area

Update Control

Virtual Workspace