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Proto/taculous 1: Building Ajax Applications

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

About Stuart Halloway

Stuart Halloway is the CEO of Relevance, Inc. (www.thinkrelevance.com). With co-founder Justin Gehtland, Stuart helps companies adopt agile, as well as innovative technologies such as Clojure and Ruby on Rails. Stuart is the author of Programming Clojure, Rails for Java Developers, and Component Development for the Java Platform. Prior to founding Relevance, Stuart was the Chief Architect at Near-Time, and the Chief Technical Officer at DevelopMentor.

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