Dylan Schiemann

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, […]

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. I […]

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 […]

With Dojo, we’ve recently been discussing splitting up the toolkit into better, easier to digest, less “expensive” code. To which I asked myself, what does expensive mean, for the creators and users of Dojo? download size number of requests CPU utilization memory usage # of browser/scenario forks complexity/time to get started error-proneness maintainability testability marketability […]

With the release of Adium Message style – Renkoo, v2.3, the graphical assets of Renkoo are now available open source under the BSD and AFL license. This is great news. In addition to providing a great invite service, Renkoo is an example of a new type of company that really gets open source (something we […]

I’ve been traveling a lot lately, and JetBlue and Southwest recently upgraded their web sites. Given my role in Dojo, I thought it would be interesting to see what JavaScript/Ajax toolkits airline web sites are using (if any), and to see if there is a correlation between the quality of the airline web site and […]

Because of my use of multiple monitor setups, I have this habit of trying to drag my mouse across screens on different computers. At 3D2, Paul told Torrey about Synergy, which is a lightweight server that lets you do just that. It’s a really really cool, easy to configure way of getting the benefits of […]

A quick Dojo Developer Day 2 (3D2) recap: Alex and I started with an overview of what’s going well with Dojo, and where we can improve (polish and performance). We then moved into a moderated discussion of what Dojo needs to become, that had a lot of ideas, but not a very solid set of […]

We’ve had a number of interesting posts recently on the SitePen blog around our new Dojo Offline Toolkit efforts, and around reducing toolkit bloat. These two topics are of particular importance to the long-term success of web apps. We’re also pleased to announce a few new Dojo Training courses. If you have any questions about […]

The kde project is making impressive use of native svg in the desktop and within applications.