Posted in Dojo, JavaScript, Work on March 31st, 2009 1 Comment »
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 [...]
Posted in JavaScript, Tech on March 12th, 2009 1 Comment »
A while back, Steve Souders of YSlow and High Performance Web Sites fame asked me if I wanted to write a chapter for his new book, Even Faster Web Sites.
In general, I turn down all offers to write books because I’m very busy with SitePen and Dojo. That said, when Steve asked if I [...]
Posted in Dojo, JavaScript, Tech on February 14th, 2009 2 Comments »
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, [...]
Posted in Dojo, JavaScript, Tech, Work on December 3rd, 2008 No Comments »
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. [...]
Posted in Dojo, JavaScript, Tech on November 24th, 2008 4 Comments »
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. [...]
Posted in JavaScript, Tech, Work on October 25th, 2008 No Comments »
Michael Carter of Orbited recently published a fun and colorful introduction to WebSocket:
I was at first overjoyed at the prospect of the World Wide Web’s new status as a real boy. But such feelings were just a precursor to the greatest technology-driven depression of my life. You see, as recently as twenty years ago the [...]
Posted in JavaScript, Tech on April 28th, 2008 1 Comment »
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 [...]
Posted in Dojo, JavaScript, Work on April 24th, 2008 1 Comment »
At SitePen, we’ve just added two new resources:
Dojo QuickStart Guide
DWR QuickStart Guide
These guides were developed by the SitePen support team.
Posted in Apple, CSS, Dojo, JavaScript, Mozilla, SVG, Tech, Work, XML/XHTML on April 15th, 2008 3 Comments »
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 [...]
Posted in Dojo, JavaScript, Tech, Work on March 27th, 2008 1 Comment »
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 [...]