Fake moon landing?

Ben Nolan (of Behaviour fame) has a nice CANVAS-tag based moon lander for your enjoyment (Safari and Firefox only).

Start your engines.

Vienna Ruby meeting

Slowly but surely, Ruby and Rails is getting some momentum here in “enterprise-software” infested Austria, so we need a Stammtisch to discuss things. If you’re in Vienna on January 31, drop by and have some beer & ruby fun.

Christoph has the details (in german).

script.aculo.us 1.7

On the heels of the recent release galore here’s one more:

script.aculo.us 1.7 is final!—download away!

So what’s new? Basically, the new stuff is all about Effect.Morph and all the goodness you can read about here and here.

Of course, we’re on Prototype 1.5 final now.

As always, get the fine print from the CHANGELOG.

Now, if script.aculo.us only had an API documentation like the new one for Prototype. The wiki is great, but a more complete, up-to-date and coherent resource would be even better. Well, let’s see about that… 😉

Of course thanks to the contributors. And yeah, I know that there are quite a bunch of tickets and patches pending—let’s get this one out first and get all that love in the next version. 🙂

NOTE: This is not the version included in Rails 1.2.1.—. You can use this version with Rails 1.2.1, just download and overwrite the files provided by Rails! The next Rails release will include this, of course. 🙂

Prototype 1.5 out now, with complete API docs

Prototype 1.5.0 has arrived. Besides tons of additions, this release marks the unvealing of the all-new Prototype site, available at:

http://prototypejs.org/

Thanks to the heroic efforts of foremost Justin Palmer and the rest of the Prototype core team we now present complete API docs, one of the things that has been missing from this great library.

Enough talk, head over to the official site to read the details, and get Prototype 1.5.0 today.

Don’t forget to digg this.

Rails 1.2 coming soon

With release candidate 2 out now, Ruby on Rails 1.2 is scheduled to be released in the very near future.

Again, if you want to make use of the tons of tweaks, additions and improvements, grab it, and test with your apps!

On the JavaScript side of things, Prototype has seen lots of updates lately, and this new improved version is part of the Rails release candidate, so don’t miss it.