Dylan Schiemann

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.

At SitePen, we’ve just added two new resources:

Dojo QuickStart Guide
DWR QuickStart Guide

These guides were developed by the SitePen support team.

A lot has changed for the better since my post four years ago on preventing the death of SVG.
Today, we have excellent SVG (and canvas) implementations in Safari, Firefox, and Opera. dojox.gfx provides a simple JavaScript API based on SVG nomenclature for abstracting away inconsistencies between implementations, and also allow VML and Silverlight support [...]

Dojo 1.1 is now available.
More information is available in the Dojo 1.1 release notes, or on the SitePen Dojo 1.1 announcement.
Be sure to check out the new Dojo API Viewer, and the growing collection of Dojo demos, tutorials, and articles.
Update: The Beauty of Dojo 1.1 by James Burke, and Dojo 1.1 released announcement by Peter [...]

Over the years of working with the Dojo Toolkit at SitePen, we have avoided offering a formal support service because we did not want to compete with our efforts in supporting the community. Recently, we started to realize that there are simply cases where an open and free community cannot always fill the need [...]

I couldn’t resist wearing my Dojo shirt while doing the Trail 2 hike through the Cinque Terre in October: