Ajax for PHP Developers

The document introduces Mike G, a senior developer who has been working with PHP since the 3.x version and JavaScript since 1999. He gives a brief introduction about himself and his background as a blogger, speaker and JavaScript evangelist. He then asks the audience if they code in PHP 5 or 4 and if they love or loathe JavaScript. The next section notes that "AJAX" is not an actual technology, but rather a term coined by Jesse James Garret in 2005 to refer to asynchronous JavaScript and XML.