Dylan Schiemann

ThinkVitamin is now featuring my article, Create cross-browser vector graphics, an article about dojo.gfx. The article is intended to show where we are today and what is possible with dojo’s vector graphics APIs.

On Friday, I had the opportunity to give a Dojo update at Mozilla. Spending time with the Mozillans is always a great honor, as their hard work makes our development efforts possible and much more pleasant. Mozilla co-sponsored Dojo’s summer internship program (along with SitePen, and the Google Summer of Code), and this was a […]

In hearing that the next version of Java will have JavaScript built-in, I was reminded of the old evolution of man t-shirts promoting soccer. For those unfamiliar, the shirt started with a football player crouched down on the left side, progressing to various apes/monkeys standing more and more upright, finally evolving to a fully upright […]

If Atlas shrugged, would anyone care?

I shake my head in disbelief when I see an article with a topic that interests me ( JavaScript and errors ), only to stop reading when the author, Joshua Gitlin, insults the target audience in the first paragraph with pedantic disrespect to a large developer community of which I am a proud member: “Now, […]

Why is it that we cannot seem to just let something be cool? Why must we hype it to death with an awful name? Are we that desperate as people to latch onto anything that seems like the next fad? Are there that few cool things out there? Why can we not learn from the […]

I wrote some developer notes recently on the Dojo XML to JS Parser.

Our first dojo profile package has been released. Basically it is the Dojo wrapper for xmlhttp requests, combined with support for using the back button and getting stateful urls while using this technique.

tantek has suggested the name cadex for responsive web applications. I can live with that. It certainly beats the proposed alternative.

Google unleashed Google Maps today and did a pretty amazing job. Of course, there are always people that just do not get it. Yes, I know that Python is a cleaner language for development. But if you want to write responsive web applications, you need JavaScript, the most widely deployed, misunderstood, functional-like language in the […]