AJAX, not just for cleaning ovens

I purchased Ajax in Action this week (along with a couple of books on Ruby and Rails, but more on that in the coming weeks) and I have been doing some reading on the tube as a result. It turns out all the simple stuff is easier than I thought it would be, as I have already managed to implement a Rico accordian control for a set of screen mockups for one client and enabled auto complete functionality on an existing (VB6!) web application using script.aculo.us. The frameworks certainly make the basic stuff easy to do, I hope to be ramping up to refreshing large sections of the screen in place (GMail style) before the end of the year...

The book itself is written in an engaging style, informative - though I'm only about 25% of the way through it I've already learned a lot - and quite up to date for the fast moving target it is trying to cover. It also has a lot of useful information on managing a large Javascript codebase and applying OOP techniques. I would certainly recommend it if you want to learn more about Ajax and/or Javascript.