Dylan Schiemann

One of the Leopard development tools that Apple is already talking about openly is dashcode, a really simple way to create your own dashboard widgets. In Tiger, Dashboard’s UI really feels like an afterthought, but the approach they are taking with Leopard (and perhaps with the iPhone, though we don’t know if that is [...]

Alex has just announced that 0.9 beta is ready for download. It’s been an amazing effort by the team to get to this point: a much lighter, faster, easier to use Dojo. We look forward to your feedback and suggestions for improvements for the final 0.9 and towards 1.0 later this year.

One of the problems most every software developer struggles with is shipping code. I recently picked up the book Release It! as a potential source of inspiration.
Unfortunately, while the author has many good points about finding performance bottlenecks and faults in your application, the insistence of the author to talk about Java everywhere has [...]

In taking a look at the performance metrics regarding the new jQuery release. it was curious to note that while jQuery is much faster than before, that on average, according to their performance tests, that Dojo 0.9 beta is faster than jQuery. The averages across all browsers listed are as follows:

Prototype: 870.5 ms
jQuery: 507.25 [...]

After two days of iHell, Day 3 was blissful with a successful activation of my iPhone after replacing the SIM card. For now, I’m being forgiving, as the iPhone is flat out fun to use. While not perfect, Apple has managed to get so many cool, fun details just right.
So why the rush [...]

A log of the error messages from AT&T/Apple, for the iPhone (out of 4 total, 3 are working) that failed to activate correctly for us:

June 29, 9:22pm PT:
AT&T is now processing your activation.
You will receive an email confirmation once your activation is complete.
June 29, 9:33pm PT:
Phone service is scheduled to be disconnected on your current [...]