August 5, 2014 — As of WordPress 3.9, the Heartbeat API is no longer experimental! It’s intended to help developers synchronize data between the browser and server without manually sending individual AJAX calls. Learn Heartbeat basics and have a quick run through on how it’s used by WordPress’ core.

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March 1, 2014 — À travers des exemples concrets, nous illustrerons comment l’usage d’AJAX peut améliorer la gestion et le filtrage (ex: multiples catégories) de listes d’information dynamiques dans un environnement WordPress.

Cette conférence s’adresse principalement à des personnes avec des connaissances en programmation.

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April 27, 2013 — The purpose of this presentation is to walk developers through the process of implementing basic AJAX functionality in themes and plugins. Topics covered will include best practices, client-side AJAX requests via jQuery, server-side processing of requests with WordPress action hooks, proper inclusion of scripts, localizing data and implementing nonces

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February 23, 2013 — This presentation shows you how you can utilize AJAX in your WordPress plugins the right way and gives you some practical examples to use. It also shows you how to debug and watch AJAX requests be executed and completed so that the mystery behind the scenes can be revealed!

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November 20, 2012 — Here is a link to Thomas’s slides.

http://raleigh.thomasgriffinmedia.com/

January 23, 2010 — jQuery is a lightweight JavaScript framework that’s extremely popular with Web designers and developers. Jim Doran presents an overview of jQuery and how to start using it, including a case study that uses jQuery with a new, homemade WP theme and layout techniques, animation effects, DOM manipulation and AJAX/JSON.

Special thanks to the Microsoft NERD Center for hosting WordCamp Boston.