The Bungee Blog

I’m delighted to report I’ll once again speak at The Ajax Experience, in its unique 2008 edition, to be held in Boston from Sep 29 to Oct 1, 2008.

I’ll hold a session named “What’s Up With Prototype and script.aculo.us,” that will showcase all the latest stuff in both libraries.

It’s going to be exciting for sure, especially with RailsConf USA offering so little in the way of client-side stuff…

Last time was a blast, so I look forward very much to this! If you attend, be sure to come and say hi!

I’ll never say enough how much technical store I set by people such as Sam and Thomas, authors of the libraries the Bungee Book revolves around.

For those of you who wish to boost up their scripting skills and make the best of them, you should run, not walk, to Thomas’ upcoming workshop for Carson, which will be held in London on March 26, 2008. There are only 54 seats, each of which is downright precious!

This is a rare occasion to learn straight from the man who brought your script.aculo.us, did the revamp of Gucci, and is now available for hire as a rich-interface consultant, as proclaimed by his spiffy new pro page (which uses the embryo of future “Scripty2”).

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.