Dylan Schiemann

One of the cool perks of my role on Aptana’s Advisory Board is that I get to learn about some of the great things they are working on. Today, Aptana has announced Aptana Cloud, including coverage by eWeek, the missing piece in their strategy of making web apps really easy to deploy. While […]

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 […]

Matthew Russell’s Dojo Book is the first book on the market exclusively about Dojo. It should be out in a few months.

On Comet Daily, Greg Wilkins and Michael Carter are currently going back and forth in a debate about Bayeux. I’m hopeful this discussion will help make Bayeux that much better for everyone interested in a Comet protocol.

Peter Higgins and I spent part of our evening assembling a collection of Dojo Community Resources, mostly in the form of
up do date tutorials and demos.

In preparation for their next Future of Web Apps conference, Carsonified is running a poll at Web App Charts to get feedback on your favorite web apps. I’m curious to hear the results, and see if things have changed recently, or if the early popular Ajax apps are still the most popular.

I’m pleased to announce that I recently accepted Aptana’s offer to join their advisory board, along with a number of other great people in the Ajax community. Aptana has just announced the release of Jaxer, dubbed “The Ajax Server.” So what exactly does that mean?
It means that JavaScript, the DOM, HTML, and CSS […]