The Ajax Experience - May 10 - 12, 2006 - No Fluff Just Stuff
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Proto/taculous 1: Building Ajax Applications

The Ajax Experience

San Francisco · May 10 - 12, 2006

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About this Presentation

Prototype and Scriptaculous may be the most popular combination in the Ajax world. In this presentation, you will learn to simplify Ajax development with Prototype and Scripty as we work through a series of examples.

Examples will include:

* using Ajax.Request to manage XMLHTTPRequest
* automatically updating pages with Ajax.Updater
* polling with PeriodicalExecuter
* managing forms with Form.serialize
* responding to inputs with Event.observe
* sifting the DOM with $ and $$
* simplifying DOM updates with Insertion
* creating and combining core effects
* CSS-driven effects with morph
* autocompletion
* sortable containers
* sound
Stuart Halloway

President of Cognitect

Stuart Halloway is a founder and President of Cognitect, Inc. (www.cognitect.com). He is a Clojure committer, and a developer of the Datomic database.

Stuart has spoken at a variety of industry events, including StrangeLoop, Clojure/conj, EuroClojure, ClojureWest, SpeakerConf, QCon, GOTO, OSCON, RailsConf, RubyConf, JavaOne, and NFJS.

Stuart has written a number of books and technical articles. Of these, he is most proud of Programming Clojure.

Learn more about Stu's presentations on his wiki.