European Ruby Conference coming up

Coming to Vienna, Austria on November 10 and 11: The EURUKO 07, the 5th European Ruby Conference.

See you there! (It’s cheap, so no excuses accepted if you don’t attend!)

script.aculo.us 2.0 slides

Here are my slides from the talk I just gave at the RailsToItaly 07 conference.

script.aculo.us 2.0 sneak preview (PDF, ~3 MB)

Note that everything in there is subject to change. And change it will. Before you start asking questions, please see the FAQ on the last slide. 🙂

Btw, Pisa is a nice city, except that it’s very rainy, at least right now. Writing this literally in the shadow of the leaning tower.

script.aculo.us in action at the NY MoMA

Dave Troy writes on how his project Twittervision, which is a Rails application powered by Prototype and script.aculo.us, is going to be on exhibit at the New York MoMA (Museum of Modern Art). The exihibition opens on February 24, 2008.

I’m really with Dave on his thoughts on this:

Today, creativity and imagination (what some folks are calling the right brain) are becoming the key drivers of software and design. With imagination, we can see around the corners of today’s most pressing challenges.

Rock on!

script.aculo.us 1.8 preview

What’s in for you (compared to script.aculo.us 1.7):

• Prototype 1.6 (lastest trunk version)
• Complete rewrite of Ajax.InPlaceEditor and Ajax.InPlaceCollectionEditor
• Full CSS inheritance in Effect.Morph
• New core effect: Effect.Tween
• Sound: play mp3 files for sound effects; uses native playback on IE and available plugins whereever possible
• Performance improvements
• Tons of bugfixes

As always, you’ll find more detailed information in the CHANGELOG.

Note that script.aculo.us 1.8 will mark a feature freeze and only bugfixes will be applied to the 1.x branch of script.aculo.us in the future. script.aculo.us 2.0 is basically a complete rewrite to make things more awesometastic, but I’m getting ahead of myself now—expect something in the near future. 🙂

Download it over at the script.aculo.us site, 196k zip file.

Prototype 1.6 OOP support

Learn all about it! 🙂

Multi-Safari

Finally, there is a way to quickly check on Safari compatibility for multiple versions of Safari, all on the same machine. Oh, note that something alike that for IE has been available for quite a while now, and Firefox is nicely self-contained.

The availability of multiple versions of the same web browser in parallel should really be something browser developers should support out of the box. Given that third-party installers can manage that, can’t it be so hard to add that ability? Please think of your fellow developers’ sanity. 🙂

script.aculo.us 2.0 teaser

from a slide of my rejectconf presentation in berlin…

…more to be revealed soon!