Dylan Schiemann

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.

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 [...]

Today, along with a reported 500,000 other people, I picked up an iPhone. We waited in line in 110F heat for about 90 minutes and were among the first 25 in one of many local AT&T stores. Sadly, that was the easy part of the day.
The iPhone looks to be an amazing device, [...]

It’s a bit late to be doing a WWDC follow-up, but better late than never. Alex and I were invited to give a talk about Dojo several months ago, as was Sam Stephenson of Prototype. Since we’re not really allowed to talk about anything tech from the talk that isn’t public, I thought [...]

I usually skip BarCamp and other hackathon coding events because they consume a lot of time and I don’t usually get as much accomplished as I do at my desk. That said, when a major new platform like the iPhone gets released, an event such as the iPhone Dev Camp seems like a great [...]

About six months ago, I started talking with Atif Khan about a device his company has been working on since 2004. Today I got a chance for the first time to see more details on the deeda, which looks more like an iPhone than anything else I’ve seen. The approach they are [...]

A number of random JavaScript musings from recent events, none of which are meaty enough to constitute a blog post.

First off, congrats to Jack Slocum on launching ext and Dean Edwards on unleashing base2. It’s great to see solid work pushing things forward in the JavaScript world.

Coach Wei of Nexaweb wrote an insightful, sad, [...]

We made the annual trek to SxSW this year and had an amazing experience as usual. This year I gave a short talk titled “Web Vector Graphics: Myth or Reality?” and did a Paul Graham style Q&A session at the end with a large number of answers in a very short amount of time. [...]

sxsw is nearly upon us. It’s that special time of year when the bay area tech community goes on spring break to Austin, TX, for the interactive portion of the festival otherwise known for great music and movies.
This year, I’m doing a solo panel called “Web Vector Graphics: Myth or Reality” where I will [...]