Desperately Learning AJAX

I’ve mentioned earlier that AJAX is one of my admiring technologies in the current year. I started my voyage for AJAX; I’m learning it, thinking it, eating it and sleeping it for several days. The main book I’m consulting is AJAX In Action from Manning publication. It’s a fantastic book for learning AJAX; but it demands some good knowledge of JavaScript, CSS and DOM (Document Object Model). You are also expected to be acquainted with Design Pattern, my favorite weapon to fight against bad code. I’m really excited that most of the basic Design Patten and many more AJAX specific pattern can be implemented prudently in AJAX and you can build reusable, robust and manageable AJAX component by using that. I’m also having some, not fully taste of dynamic programming during AJAX coding. Dynamic programming like Ruby, JRuby(100% java implementation of Ruby) etc is coming in front now-a-days. Bye the way, I’m also consulting online resources of AJAX that is my "external force" for "accelerating" my AJAX learning. All these can be found here.
Hopefully within next 2 weeks I will finish up the book and acquire some professional AJAX skill. Then I will go further into deeper AJAX space like popular AJAX framework like dojo, prototype etc