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Interview: Rails and JavaScript Wizards

Posted by Obie Fernandez on Feb 23, 2007 03:03 PM

Community: Ruby
Topics: Javascript,; Design
Tags: Scriptaculous,; Prototype

The latest in our series of interviews filmed at Canada on Rails 2006 - Thomas Fuchs, author of the massively popular Scriptaculous JavaScript library and Michael Buffington, well-known Rails programmer and author of the surprise hit online-game Unroll (llor.nu) have a casual conversation with Obie Fernandez about the power of mixing JavaScript with Ruby on Rails and smart development.

Thomas' company Wollzelle is the creator of the popular Rails-based asset management system, Fluxiom.

Watch this exclusive InfoQ interview today.

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