Simon Willison's Weblog: mootools

What are the best tech networking events / meetups / conferences in London?

2012-08-08T10:04:00+00:00

My answer to What are the best tech networking events / meetups / conferences in London? on Quora

Our startup Lanyrd helps people discover professional events, and we have a very healthy userbase in London. If you sign in to http://lanyrd.com/ with your Twitter account we'll show you events the people you follow are tracking or plan to attend - knowing that someone you respect plans to spend the time to go to an event is a very strong form of recommendation. You can also browse our full list of events in London here: http://lanyrd.com/places/london/

I'm personally fond of the Hacker News meetup (around once a month in the Old Street area, http://lanyrd.com/series/hnlondon/ ). In terms of conferences, the Future of Web Apps (disclaimer: I'm speaking) is a good bet.

Tags: london, mootools, quora

What's wrong with extending the DOM

2010-04-11T22:03:39+00:00

What's wrong with extending the DOM

Detailed explanation of the problems that crop up from extending built-in DOM objects using JavaScript, from Prototype developer kangax. Prototype 2.0 will be dropping this technique entirely—will MooTools follow suit?

Tags: javascript, kangax, monkeypatching, mootools, prototype-js

Introducing Cloudera Desktop

2009-10-21T18:48:36+00:00

Introducing Cloudera Desktop

It’s a GUI for Hadoop, and under the hood is a whole stack of open source software, including Python, Django, MooTools, Twisted, lxml, CherryPy, Mako, Java and AspectJ.

Tags: aspectj, cherrypy, cloudera, django, hadoop, java, lxml, mako, mootools, open-source, python, twisted

Visual Event

2008-12-10T15:38:59+00:00

Visual Event

External code loading bookmarklet that visualises the JavaScript events hooked up to the current page, and lets you view the source code of the event handling function for each one. Only works for events added by jQuery, YUI or MooTools since those libraries maintain a cache of event handlers that they add, to work around the standard DOM’s omission of handler introspection.

Tags: allan-jardine, bookmarklets, dom, events, javascript, jquery, mootools, visualevent, yui

Google AJAX Libraries API

2008-05-27T17:56:47+00:00

Google AJAX Libraries API

Google are hosting copies of jQuery, Prototype, mooTools and Dojo on their CDN, with a promise to permanently host different versions and an optional JavaScript API to dynamically load the most recent version of a library. I wish they’d stop capitalising Ajax though.

Via Ajaxian

Tags: ajax, cdn, dojo, google, jquery, libraries, mootools, prototype-js

Quoting Tom Occhino

2007-07-08T07:29:16+00:00

MooTools is not compatible with any other javascript framework. If you "definitely need to work with prototype" (which you don't, since the frameworks each provide all the functionality you need to use only one or the other) then learn how to do what you want to do in prototype. Otherwise, learn to use MooTools to do all the things you want to do. They simply do not work together, and I promise they never will.

— Tom Occhino

Tags: javascript, libraries, mootools, prototype-js