The Bungee Blog

(cross-posted from the official Prototype blog)

Prototype Core is happy to announce the first Prototype Developer Day! The Prototype Developer Day is going to be a recurring event bringing together Prototype Core members and users from the Prototype community to share experiences, offer insight into what’s coming up, and discuss topics like contribution, support, and the Prototype ecosystem. If you’re big on Prototype, you cannot miss this!

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One size does not necessarily fit all. Although it is my fervent hope that the very vast majority of the book’s readers found it to their liking and very useful to their endeavors, it never hurts to cross multiple approaches in order to get a better understanding of a topic.

Which is why I couldn’t be silent on the recent release of fellow Prototype Core member Andrew Dupont’s book, Practical Prototype and script.aculo.us. Amazon has Search-Inside already, and you can grab a free chapter at Ajaxian.

You’ll notice Amazon pairs Andrew’s book and mine more often then not

Andrew’s a superb Prototype expert, one of the four people, actually, having commit rights to Prototype’s repository. He’s extremely active (far more than I these days, I’m afraid) and I have every confidence his book is very useful. Check it out!

I’m delighted to report that my article in renowned A List Apart just went out, and it covers a pretty tricky aspect of JavaScript often misunderstood or poorly known: binding.

Head over to ALA and enjoy: Getting Out of Binding Situations in JavaScript.