Quick Introduction to Prototype.js
Last night was the July meeting of the PHPWM usergroup (http://www.phpwm.org) where four members, including myself and Jake, gave ‘lightning talks’ on different topics. At Senokian, we rely on the Prototype javascript framework and so I volunteered to give a (very) quick introduction on some of its features and uses.
The talk covered the main parts of the framework, namely the Utility Functions ($ and friends), extending elements, Ajax, Enumerable, Events and Classes, finishing off with a short example of combining a few different things.
The slides I used for the talk can be downloaded as an S5 presentation (runs in your web browser): Quick Introduction to Prototype.js.
My talk followed those of David and Sam from Pale Purple. David talked about Propel, which looks like it might be worth a look, while Sam has been working on a web-based implementation of the ‘Turtle’ concept, used to teach programming. This looks like it could grow into a really useful product, well worth keeping an eye on. There’s a copy online at http://turtles.onaserver.org/.
martin5211 said the following at July 15th, 2007 at 6:51 pm :
very interesting… I was looking for slides and all about prototype, I’m programming with cakephp now, is good to know new frameworks and tools because may be necessary sometimes.