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Presentation: Prototype and Script.aculo.us: spending weekends at home again

Posted by Floyd Marinescu on Oct 25, 2007

Sections
Development
Topics
Ruby ,
Rich Internet Apps ,
Ruby on Rails ,
.NET ,
Javascript ,
Java
Tags
Scriptaculous ,
Prototype
In this QCon London session, Script.aculo.us creator Thomas Fuchs gives an overview about the concepts and functionality of both Prototype and the script.aculo.us libraries, provides advice on what and what not to expect and gives pointers and hints on how to get started.

Watch Prototype and Script.aculo.us: spending weekends at home again (48 min)

Thomas Fuchs, based in Vienna, is also a core contributor to Prototype & Ruby on Rails. Thomas is a partner and CTO at wollzelle, where Thomas architected and lead the implementation efforts for various web apps and enterprise database systems for Austrian companies in the health-care, energy and logistics domains.
room for improvement by meinhard benn Posted
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    room for improvement

    by meinhard benn

    nice presentation, thomas,

    but the video has too much cutting, panning and blending for my taste - makes me dizzy. ;) also a few glimpses at the projection, especially the code fragments you showed, would have been nice.

    otherwise, great work with the frameworks!

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