Advisor Profile
Thomas Fuchs
Scriptaculous
- Specialties -
- User Interface, Ajax, Ruby on Rails
- Projects -
- Fluxiom, Scriptaculous
- Location -
- Vienna, Austria
Being 10 years in the web development industry, Thomas is the mastermind of script.aculo.us, a full-featured AJAX-powered JavaScript user interface framework. He firmly believes design and programming are really one thing.
Thomas Fuchs is a software architect from Vienna, Austria. He's been building web applications since 1996. Thomas is the author of script.aculo.us, a cross-browser JavaScript framework featuring advanced AJAX UI controls, visual effects and other niceties, and a core development team member of the influential Ruby on Rails web development framework. He's also a contributor to Prototype, an object-oriented AJAX/JavaScript framework.
He wrote the "Web 2.0" chapter on Ajax development with Rails for the best-selling Agile Web Development with Rails (Pragmatic Programmers) book.
Next to doing workshops on AJAX and writing about web application development on his blog mir.aculo.us, he currently is busy building fluxiom, the next big thing in digital asset manangement, as a member of wollzelle, a Viennese design and programming shop.