Ruby on Rails, AJAX… stuff I don’t know, yet.

So for awhile now I’ve heard the buzz around the web about new or improved technologies that are taking over… whatever… This is just more crap I don’t know anything about. As soon as I figure out what it is, and how it will make my life better as a designer I’ll add it to my repritoire. But the big herdle has been that I haven’t encountered anything that gives a really good overview of the technology.

Until now: The Fivefold Path » What Every Webmaster and Web Developer MUST Know About Ruby on Rails and AJAX

The above link, is a good article for the rest of us or the non-programming web type. Very simple and to the point. If your experienced with HTML/PHP/JS or the like but are new to the other languages this is a good article to get your bearings. What is Ruby, what it does, What is AJAX, what it does, just what I was looking for.