Thomas Fuchs

Thomas Fuchs is a software architect from Vienna, Austria. He's been building web applications since 1996. Thomas is the author of script.aculo.us, a cross-browser JavaScript framework featuring advanced Ajax UI controls, visual effects and other niceties, and a core development team member of the influential Ruby on Rails web development framework. He's also a contributor to Prototype, an object-oriented Ajax/JavaScript framework.

He wrote the “Web 2.0” chapter on Ajax development with Rails for the best-selling Agile Web Development with Rails (Pragmatic Programmers) book.

Next to writing about web application development on his blog mir.aculo.us, he currently is busy building fluxiom, an ajaxy web application, as a member of wollzelle, a Viennese design and programming shop.