Dylan Schiemann

April 10th was the final day of QCon Tokyo and the first ever dojo.sake event as well.
I began the day with a meeting at a large Japanese company that has an interest in Ajax. After that, I took Henrik up on his advice to walk around and pick a place somewhat at random and [...]

My quick stopover in Los Angeles was packed with good discussions. Last night I had dinner with Dojo Co-founder David Schontzler and this morning I had breakfast with Dojo Committer Gavin Doughtie.
I’m now on my way to Seoul via Asiana Air:
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Today also marks the official release of Dojo 1.3! In addition [...]

My lengthy trip begins today with the short PHX to LAX segment before flying to Seoul tomorrow.
If you’re in Seoul, Beijing, Tokyo, Queenstown, Auckland, Sydney, Amsterdam, Munich, London, Manchester, Edinburgh, Stockholm, Dublin, Milan, or Paris, hopefully you can make it to one or more of the Dojo events (Dojo dinner/beer and workshops) or conferences along [...]

As part of my upcoming travels, I’ll be speaking at a number of events and conducting a few training courses as well. The highlights:

Dojo training course in Munich with the guys from uxebu in Munich on May 7th and 8th
Dojo training course in Stockholm at the Swedish Web Developer Conference on May 25th and [...]

I’ve wanted to take a trip around the world for most of my life.
When I was growing up, my Grandfather entered a contest to guess the total feet traveled of all Cubs home runs from the start of the season until a specific date. He turned in his contest entry, and after turning it [...]

Two years ago, I wrote about Airline web sites and their use of JavaScript/Ajax toolkits. A lot has changed since then, so here’s an update. Two years ago, Southwest and JetBlue were the clear leaders in web site quality, ease of use, and also use of Ajax toolkits. Below is a quick, [...]

I’m attending a number of Dojo social events in February and March:
February 4, 2009:
dojo.beer.dinner(”boston”)
February 17, 2009:
dojo.beer.dinner(”new york”) (to be announced later this week)
February 18, 2009:
Ajax Toolkit Panel (hosted by Google)
March 15, 2009:
5th Annual Dojo Salt Lick, Driftwood TX (near Austin) during SXSW (to be announced soon)

Our English language Dojo book total is now up to at least six, with more books on the way.
Peter Svensson has released Learning Dojo, which includes coverage of the new Dojo grid, and numerous DojoX examples. There’s an example chapter on Layout available for free.

Leslie Orchard has released the Concise Guide to Dojo. [...]

I was invited to speak at Adobe MAX this year on the topic of Building Desktop Applications Powered by Dojo and Adobe AIR. The talk summarized the key things we’ve learned at SitePen in adding AIR support to Dojo, as well as working on the Dojo Toolbox and the Dojo Extensions for Adobe AIR. [...]

Frank Zammetti has released a new Dojo book, Practical Dojo Projects.

I haven’t seen the book yet, so it’s too soon to review, but knowing Frank’s other books, it’s sure to be a great and informative read.
This book follows on the heels of the first three Dojo books.