Shortly after we began working on Dojo Offline, our friends at Google invited us over to the Googleplex to tell us about their efforts in building an open source project similar to Dojo Offline called Google Gears. Since the release of Dojo Offline, we’ve been working with Google to make Dojo Offline and Google Gears work well together. The Dojo Offline API now works with Google Gears, providing a flexible and easy extension to Google’s API and offline platform. We’re very excited about this collaboration, and will be demonstrating this work at the Google Developer Day in San Jose on May 31. If you are attending, we hope to see you there and show some great examples of what is possible with Dojo Offline + Google Gears!

Dojo Offline + Google Gears Podcast

We’re speaking at and/or attending a number of upcoming events and conferences. We hope to see you there!

• May 20-23: Alex will be attending the IEEE Privacy and Security Symposium in Oakland, CA. Prior to our Dojo days, Alex spent most of his time thinking about security.
• May 23-25: I’ll be conducting a 3-day Dojo Training Course in London. The course will focus on Dojo 0.4, but will explain many of the changes happening in 0.9 as we work through the relevant topics.
• May 24: While in London for the training course, I’ll lead an evening discussion about Dojo 0.9.
• May 31: A few of us from the SitePen team will be attending the Google Developer Day in Mountain View to hang out and learn more about the latest Google Developer APIs.

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This past Friday, we pushed Dojo 0.9 Milestone Release 2 out of the nest. This is the last milestone before Beta and the system is starting to take a recognizable shape. Only thinner.

Here’s what’s new and awesome in M2:

• Dijit has landed! Holy cow is it fast. Stay tuned for themes and more widgets.
• Layered builds. Slice and dice your builds any way you like to achieve maximum performance
• Style code is now even faster
• Lots of new modules, bug fixes, and quality APIs

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A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about Ajax Dark Matter and the variety of interesting things happening behind the scenes.

This week, Ambassador Publications announced the launch of their internet advertising platform. We’ve worked with Ambassador to build this application, which provides their internal sales force a feature-rich, Dojo-based web application for selling and managing ad campaigns across the major search text ad networks (Google, Yahoo, MSN, Ask, Looksmart, SuperPages, etc.).

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