Dylan Schiemann

A number of Facebook users are petitioning to keep the old Facebook design. I switched to the new design when I first noticed the option, and it is such a significant improvement over the old design that I would consider switching back to be a bit silly. It’s a cleaner, more efficient, more informative design, […]

I recently upgraded to the iPhone 2.0 software, and then finally upgraded my desktop to Leopard after waiting for the “best beta evar” to stabilize. I noticed shortly thereafter that iTunes no longer recognized my iPhone. After a software update, reboot, and moving the iPhone to a different USB port, I still couldn’t see the […]

A recent post from David Hyatt on the www-style-list answers my question from April 15th: Will we see CSS variables next?. The short answer is yes! WebKit now has an experimental implementation of CSS variables: You can test this feature using a WebKit nightly Test cases Thanks to David Hyatt and Daniel Glazman for bringing […]

Three great Dojo books are now available for sale: Each book has a slightly different target… I highly recommend all 3. In my opinion, James Harmon’s book is better geared towards people new to JavaScript, while Matthew Russell’s book is the most complete of the set.

Firefox 3 launches today, with significant upgrades across ever facet of the web browser, from chrome (a much improved address bar, bookmarks system, and more easily searchable password and cookie managers), to significant rendering and JavaScript engine performance improvements. At this point, Safari and Firefox are in a battle of the ages for performance and […]

I recently picked up Ron Paul’s “The Revolution: A Manifesto”. I’ve made my way through the first two chapters which do a great job of simply explaining the problems with our government. A few of the highlights include, for example, the 1996 election won by the Republican party: The Contract with America was typical of […]

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 the name […]

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 […]

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 of […]