Hi, I'm Thomas Fuchs. I'm the author of the script.aculo.us user interface JavaScript library, a member of the Prototype core team and a Ruby on Rails core alumnus.
You're using my JavaScript work every day, even if you're not aware of it! @thomasfuchs on Twitter Need consulting, corporate training or want me to speak at your conference? Contact me!
What’s really cool about it is how it integrates WebKit into the actual Desktop Application, and makes it possible (in the near future!) to have user-styled themes (by means of a set of HTML, CSS and JavaScript files). We ship the beta with a set of several themes. Prototype and script.aculo.us are no longer for web applications only.
We’re using an army of twitter bots to pull in tweets from conference-goers with our very own super-sophisticated natural language processing tools (read: a couple of simple regexps), and present the data in various actually useful forms, including party watch, which tells you what parties are hot and if you’ve to expect to wait in line, a map view of where peeps are going for drinks, popular keywords, topics and trends and, just for fun, stuff that people overheard.
It’s built with all my favourite web development stuffs, which are Ruby on Rails (for the database handling), script.aculo.us 2 (for the effects) and Sprockets for fast, fast JavaScript delivery.
Partywatch is also available as a an iPhone web site—bookmark it for quick and easy access on the go!
Today, it’s the Twestival, a day of local Twitter meetups for fun and good! Twestival participants donate to Charity: Water, a non profit organization bringing clean, safe drinking water to people in developing nations by funding sustainable clean water solutions in areas of greatest need.
Personally, I’ll let the stream roll by on my second monitor while I’m writing up/testing some more things for Javascript Rocks! (mind you, the beta will be out tomorrow, so head over for your $5 discount while you can…).
Beautiful sub-pixel antialiased font rendering for the Web.
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