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

Posted by Thomas Fuchs on Oct 25, 2007 12:45 PM

Community
.NET,
Ruby,
Java
Topics
Rich Internet Apps,
Javascript
Tags
Prototype,
AJAX,
Scriptaculous,
QCon
Summary
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.

Bio
Thomas Fuchs, based in Vienna, Austria is the creator of Script.aculo.us, and & core a 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.

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1 comment

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room for improvement by meinhard benn Posted Nov 17, 2007 5:57 AM

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    room for improvement

    Nov 17, 2007 5:57 AM 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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