Dylan Schiemann

I’m behind on my blog posts about Beijing and Tokyo which were both incredible and amazing, but I’ll catch up after I arrive in Queenstown New Zealand after an 11+ hour flight to Auckland and a short flight to Queenstown! I can’t wait to see the reversal of the coriolis effect for the first [...]

I spent a couple of hours at the N. Seoul Tower in the morning on Friday. The views were both amazing, and disappointing because of the amount of smog that blows in from South Korea’s neighbor on the west. N. Seoul Tower is sort of like putting the Space Needle or CN Tower [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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, [...]

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. [...]

On this day of thanks, on a professional level, I’m really thankful that Dojo is such a thriving community, and SitePen is able to work with such amazing and great companies.
A few people have asked me privately if I am upset that Alex is joining Google. The short answer is, absolutely not. Alex [...]

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. [...]