The Bungee Blog

Well, I’m still here at The Ajax Experience and this has been a pretty good time so far.

Yesterday I gave my 3 talks, and today jetlag hit me hard Still, it’s wonderful to finally meet and chat with such prominent figures as John Resig, Joe Hewitt, Aaron Gustafson or Dylan Schiemann, to name but a few.

TAE is supposed to put the slides online, but I couldn’t for the life of me find them on the site. So I made them available on my own site, feel free to download them:

• Discovering Prototype
• Advanced Prototype
• script.aculo.us : slides • demos

The two Prototype sessions were too jam-packed with information, and I regret that I had to fly over parts of them, probably saturating half the audience as I went. On the other hand, the script.aculo.us session seems to go over very well, with people dropping their jaw at the demos (and more importantly, at the demos’ source code brevity) more than once

I took care to attend presentations about the other frameworks, too: Dylan’s Dōjō 0.9 and Brad’s Dōjō Offline, Rich’s Ext, to name a few. Dōjō apparently changed very much for the better between 0.4 and 0.9, and I look forward to diving into it a bit more soon. Ext 2.0 apparently looks very well too, and I’m all the more interested as it just fits this sparse space for widgets that are built over Prototype, in the sense that script.aculo.us’ widgets may not cut it for desktop-feeling apps: if I ever need to do such a UI, Ext may be a cool bet.

I’m having a blast. I hope you like the slides and demos.

The book’s second beta, B1, was released today. It now features the script.aculo.us part, for a total of about 390 pages!

The book has entered tech review and its next release should be the final one, complete with the latest Prototype 1.6 updates, the intro and preface, and having gone through the usual late stages (copy editing, indexing, etc.).