RailsConf Europe

May 3rd, 2006

RailsConf Europe Speaker! RailsConf Europe 2006 has been officially announced!

All this RailsConf goodness with many, many cool speakers will be in London from September 14 to 15.

I’ll most probably do a talk there on something Ajaxy or Effectsy, so see you in September.

And better hurry with the registration, the first RailsConf in Chicago in June has sold out in less than a week. You’ve been warned. 🙂

Like reflections? Try the Reflector.

April 27th, 2006

Like those shiny reflections on web pages? Here’s a little bit of code to play with. It’s called the script.aculo.us Reflector.

Currently reported to work on IE 6, Firefox, Safari, and Opera, ~~(although not in the currently released version of Safari~~– if anyone finds out why, i’ll update it)- Update: Fixed, thanks to Green.

It’s not really meant for production use yet, as it will probably introduce performance issues and other nasty things, but it’s always refreshingly nice to see what a few lines of Prototype and script.aculo.us code can do.

Have fun!

Update 2: I’ve cleaned up the demo page/code and added some usage hints. Anyway, the “is not really meant for production use” warning is still up, so use at your own risk. 🙂

Oh yes: If you like, digg this. 🙂

Presenting at the Ajax Experience in San Francisco

April 25th, 2006

I’m giving a talk on using script.aculo.us and Prototype to deliver a better user experience on Thursday, May 11, in (hopefully) sunny and warm San Francisco, California at The Ajax Experience conference.

Not only me, but other Wollzellers will be there as well. Just drop me a line if you want to meet up, and we’ll see what we can do. 🙂

script.aculo.us effects cheat sheet

April 23rd, 2006

Amy Hoy has released her field guide to script.aculo.us effects. Great work, Amy!

Keep those coming! 🙂

Create your own effects tutorial

April 18th, 2006

You might have noticed the Vitamin Advisor badge on the sidebar, and wondered what this is, so here it goes:

Vitamin is a resource for web designers, developers and entrepreneurs. You should find tons of interesting reads for all aspect of doing web apps from technical to business stuff from some of the best minds out there.

My first feature is on creating your own visual effects with script.aculo.us—so, if you’re interested in breaking out of the norm, and doing your own, just read on!

If you want, you can also listen to the interview a gave a while ago, for some insights on script.aculo.us.

Also, there’s a great review of fluxiom to be found on Vitamin, done by an independent reviewer. We got a 4 out of 5 rating, and that’s while we’re in private beta, not too bad! 🙂

Slides from my Rails Ajax presentation at Canada on Rails

April 15th, 2006

Here are the slides from my presentation on April 14th in Vancouver at Canada on Rails.

The presentation primarily is about all the new RJS goodness that’s now part of Rails (as of version 1.1).

Download the PDF (~8.5MB)

Eh? Off to Canada on Rails

April 7th, 2006

Tomorrow morning I’m flying to Vancouver, where the Canada on Rails conference will take place on April 13 and 14.

I’ll give a keynote presentation on Advanced Rails AJAX techniques, showing off the new .rjs templates and also giving some insights into fluxiom and how all the magic works.

Also, I’m hoping to catch the April 15 Avalanche vs. Canucks NHL game. 🙂

Update: Arrived in one piece. 🙂

script.aculo.us V1.6.1

April 6th, 2006

So, a new release with the exciting addition of sortable trees, kudos to Sammi Williams for implementing these. See the functional test for sortable trees for hands-on experience.

Also, the included Prototype V1.5.0_rc0 has seen fixes and optimizations, so be sure to don’t miss out on this release.

Thanks to the all the bug hunters and contributors! 🙂

Get it here.