In the midst of all the wonderful AJAX libraries in the wild, many today still don’t understand the underlying technologies of AJAX that make it so powerful. In this article php|architect’s publisher Marco Tabini covers JSON, the magic format that makes serializing data between Javascript and other languages (often server-side) a breeze. Simplicity, velocity and power are the gifts of JSON.

Link: JSON and PHP: More Than Web Services — a/r/t by php|architect