Need JavaScript foo?

Check out Amy Hoy’s JavaScript Boot Camp tutorial, highly recommended!

Prototype & script.aculo.us Textmate bundle

Harald Martin Ström has created a bundle for easier Prototype and script.aculo.us development with everyone’s favourite editor, TextMate.

While not completely finished yet, it features a bunch of helpers to make writing Prototypish code even easier, with support for Ajax calls, enumerations or forms in Prototype, and Effects in script.aculo.us. It also features nice syntax highlighting of course, based on Justin Palmers earlier efforts.

It even features a cool “look-it-up-in-the-wiki” function: just mark a word and press Ctrl-Shift-H.

More about it & download here.

Extending Prototype

Here are two must-read articles on extending Prototype—here we go:

• Writing Custom Iterators For Prototype shows how to use the addMethods method of Prototype’s Element object and the comments include a nice $w() method akin to Ruby’s %w() shortcut for creating arrays
• The DOM Ready Extension for Prototype adds a nice Event.onDOMReady() method (also see this)

Nice to see this great stuff popping up everywhere—please don’t stop. 🙂

Plus, if you’re able to understand german, click here.