Prototype and script.aculo.us: The "Bungee book" has landed!
Core team member Christophe Porteneuve has been hard at work for the past few months tracking and documenting Prototype for his new book Prototype and script.aculo.us, which is now available as a Beta Book from the Pragmatic Programmers (and is scheduled to ship later this year).
The first half of Christophe’s book is a whirlwind tour of Prototype: it starts with the convenience functions, explains how Prototype extends JavaScript’s built-in objects, and goes on to cover event handling, DOM traversal and manipulation, and Ajax techniques. It even explains how to extend Prototype to suit your needs, as well as how to contribute your changes upstream. Check out the table of contents for a more in-depth look at what’s covered.
The second half, to be made available in the next beta release, will feature complete coverage of script.aculo.us.
If you buy the PDF (or PDF+Paper combo) now, you’ll get access to updated versions of the book as they’re made available, plus a copy of the final version once it’s released.
Prototype and script.aculo.us is destined to become the bible of Prototype developers, so have a look at the sample chapters and purchase your beta copy today! :)
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Congratulations! the most usefull Ajax develop book I think.
Hmm, wonder how this will be different from Manning Publications’ excellent “Prototype and Scriptaculous in Action.”
Hi,
Enjoy yourself Christophe Porteneuve and stay on the right touch with web2.0/ajax best practices. I’m ready to publish a book in french on that subject i will advise you when it’s done.
Best Regards to all web2.0/ajax contibutors and users
Nicolas: which publisher are you going with? Currently the reference FR book on the subject is also mine: http://www.editions-eyrolles.com/Livre/9782212120288/bien-developper-pour-le-web-2-0?xd=b0394afbcda8c1af8bd8ede85c450fd3 (main page) and http://www.eyrolles.com/Accueil/Livre/9782212120288/ (library + user comments)
D’oh! Sorry about the inline URLs… I thought Textile would pick them up, but it didn’t.
Christophe : hi, maybe we can speak of the book editor by email it will be more secure for me and the editor (mail on my website) ;-)
Otherwise i wanna applaud the new graphic design that match all the objectives of a good one ;-)
Enjoy web2.0/ajax
Thanks! Congratulations! that’s grate.
Great work Christophe, GREAT WORK. Let’s talk sometime soon.
Regards, -Mike Ellan
Its a great book, much much better than Manning Publications’ “Prototype and Scriptaculous in Action.” That one, I felt was verbose and didn’t like the writing style much, go through the sample chapters which are available for free download, and you’ll get an idea.
Congratulations! that’s greate news btw. I really enjoyed reading all of your posts. It’s interesting to read ideas, and observations from someone else’s point of view… makes you think more. So please keep up the great work. Greetings
Much better than the Manning book? I’d suggest that potential buyers compare these two books, because I found the writing style of the bungee book to be overly informal and poor. I really appreciated the style of the Manning authors, who are really professional tech writers with a lot of experience.
thanx to such a nice book, it is so much helpfull for me…thx pragmatic team.