Practical Prototype

Opera Dragonfly | Take a peek into the future

2009-08-10T22:57:00.001-04:00

Opera Dragonfly | Take a peek into the future Do developers now have a choice when debugging JavaScript? I think they do now. Dragonfly is a cross device and platform debugging environment which is currently in alpha release. This means you will be able to debug pages running on devices such as a phone with Opera Mobile 9.5. I seems Dragonfly has most of the features of Firebug, and improvements

Using YUI with Google Gears

2009-02-06T10:31:00.002-05:00

I updated a post over on YUI Shed to illustrate how to use YUI and Google Gears databases. There's no prototype involved, but I thought it might be helpful to some to re-post a link here for that.

Using Prototype with YUI

2008-12-14T23:28:00.002-05:00

I have been using prototype.js with YUI for quite some time now for one simple reason. I LOVE classes. Prototype makes it easy to declare javascript classes, and use them wisely with YUI. 1) You can make easy wrapper classes around YUI classes :var MyDataTable = Class.create(YAHOO.widgts.DataTable, { ... });In this case you could set some defaults up for creating a DataTable the same way across

Easy Options

2008-08-01T10:13:00.002-04:00

When creating reusable classes it it important that your object can be altered fairly easily. Today I'm going to discuss the Object.extend method, and how it is useful in creating reusable objects. Let's take a simple class example of a custom input box and its label. We want it to create something like First NameFirst Name var

US Government against radio ?

2008-07-06T09:53:00.001-04:00

Although this is totally unrelated to JavaScript, in any way, I think the community as a whole will understand how important this is. A few months ago, I received several emails stating that the new internet regulations may bring down internet radio sites such as pandora and others. Today, I received an email that really disturbed me. The government was going to cut funding on the SETI@Home

Google Gears, Prototype, and YUI

2008-07-03T02:48:00.002-04:00

Recently I have had the chance to monkey around with Google Gears, Prototype, and YUI together. I created a nice data dashboard application which uses the local database in Gears to store data relevant to the user. For example, when working within your corporate intranet, you can enable your users to enter in data chunks that pertain to the work they perform such as common account numbers, logins

Google hosts prototype

2008-07-02T03:16:00.004-04:00

Compressed versions of Prototype can now be served from GoogleYou can either link to the source code directly: Or you can use Google’s API: