I logged on last night after work around 11 to finally take the exam.  Over all I think I did fairly well with all the information.  However my one drawback that I noticed is I spent way too much time paging through the book looking for answers.  Needless to say, the two hour time limit actually flew by quite quickly.  Hopefully professor Haines will get our grades posted quickly *wink wink*.

Anyway, I enjoyed the online format better than the contrary.  In my situation, it allowed me to prepare and take it when best suited my schedule.

In othe things, I've started looking up information on my term paper subject, Ajax, and have come up with some alright sources, but I'm having trouble focusing on the integration part of Ajax since Im more used to its presentation aspect.  Whenever I start my search for new information, I always get side tracked by finding some other interesting topic of how Ajax relates so some new cool design feature.  Nonetheless, there's still a month remaining until the paper is actually due so I still have time to gather the needed information.

Here's an awesome link describing how Ajax actually works.  It's slightly outdated (2005) and uses some old references, but there are some really helpful figures that demonstrate how Ajax interacts with servers and what needs to be processed on the server side vs. the client side.  Ajax alows for a huge decrease in bandwidth which means less wait time for us.  Huge companies such as Google are already using the technology; I'm sure more and more people will jump on the bandwagon in the near future.