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August 2007
August 16, 2007
Prototype 1.6.0 Release Candidate
The Prototype Core Team announced Prototype 1.6.0 RC on Wednesday. Team member Sam Stephenson notes the significant improvements to the events library in the announcement: "We dubbed 1.6.0 the 'event overhaul' release internally, and it shows--one of our worst APIs has become one of our best..." Other new features include improved support for JavaScript 1.6, grep semantics, and and improve DOM API. Get Prototype 1.6.0_rc0 here.
Posted by John Dorsey at 07:10 PM Permalink
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August 09, 2007
View From the Bus
Adobe's AIR team finished the western U.S. leg of its bus tour in Denver, CO in July. Check out this video from the last stop, Andre Charland : Building AIR Applications with JavaScript Frameworks. The video features Nitobi co-founder Andre Charland discussing how the AIR platform helps JavaScript developers address usability concerns -- for instance, supporting drag-and-drop and cut-and-paste between data from other apps and AIR-based apps. Andre points out how AIR apps helps straddle the divide between the web and desktop.
Next week they'll start the month-long eastern/central leg starting in Atlanta, ending up in Chicago just in time for Sukkot. Visit the onAIR Bus Tour site for more videos and tour dates.
Posted by John Dorsey at 03:35 PM Permalink
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August 08, 2007
On-Site Geekery with Ignite Seattle
If you're in the Emerald City or thereabouts, Ignite 4 Seattle is being held Wednesday night, August 8. The event, hosted by O’Reilly Radar's Brady Forrest and Bre Pettis of Make: Weekend Projects fame, is an evening-long party for "on-site geekery, sharing, and innovation (and drinking)." The event is held at the Capitol Hill Arts Center, and starts with a Make: contest at 6:30, followed by Ignite presentations at 8:30. Check out Brady's blog for the list of scheduled speakers.
If you're not in the neighborhood, you can still check out Ignite videos online: http://ignitenight.blip.tv/.
Posted by John Dorsey at 02:24 PM Permalink
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