James Padolsey. Practical JavaScript · Home. Series: javascript-from-null « How to Create a Web Service in a Matter of Minutes. Twice a month, we revisit some of our readers’ favorite posts from throughout the history of Nettuts+.
This tutorial was first published in July, 2010. Offering your content or logic as a service on the web is a great idea. For starters it allows you to build numerous front-ends for your own information without having to access the databases all the time (and thus making scaling your system much easier). The even more practical upshot is that you allow people on the web to play with your information and build things you never even dreamed of doing.