Max Kiesler - Designer, SOMA San Franciso

Phototype - Image Manipulation with Javascript
"Lately I had same crazy thoughts on coding a javascript wrapper to manipulate images rendered on the server-side. I decided to do some test which eventually resulted in phototype, a client/server-side library, based on prototype, which supports all kinds of image manipulations. On the serverside the library is powered by combination of PHP/GD that renders the image. With phototype, you are able to rotate, resize, flip and do some other cool effects to images."
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Using jQuery with Ruby on Rails
"By default, Rails comes packed with the Prototype javascript library and the effects library, Scriptaculous. While this is all well and good sometimes you want a change. I personally prefer jQuery to prototype. I don’t have any beef with prototype, infact I used it for about a year before even getting into rails, but I just prefer the jQuery syntax and selectors."
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qGallery - Prototype Based Gallery Script
qGallery is a simple to use prototype based gallery script. All image processing is done by the script so you don't have to worry about the images you upload on the server. All images for the skimmer graphics and the fullsize view will be created on the fly and stored in a cache directory on the server to save processing power on the server.
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AJAX Libraries API - Google Code
The AJAX Libraries API is a content distribution network and loading architecture for the most popular open source JavaScript libraries. By using the Google AJAX API Loader's google.load() method, your application has high speed, globaly available access to a growing list of the most popular JavaScript open source libraries including, jQuery, prototype, script.aculo.us, Moo Tools, and dojo.
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QuarkRuby - Why I moved from Prototype to jQuery
jQuery is a JavaScript library which follows unobtrusive paradigm for application development using JavaScript. jQuery inherently supports Behavior driven development and is based on traversing HTML documents using CSS Selectors. On the other hand, Prototype is a JavaScript library for Class driven development which makes life easier working with JavaScript. Prototype library has a good support in Ruby on Rails via helper functions.
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Introducing a Cross Site AJAX Plugin for Prototype
During cross site Ajax requests the standard XmlHttpRequest approach breaks down. The problem is that XmlHttpRequest is bounded by the same site policy. Fortunately the script tag has the freedom to do as it pleases.
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