November 30th, 2011 – by Angela Segovia
SitePen’s Dylan Schiemann delivered a powerful keynote, Real Time, Real Fast, during the opening ceremony of Rich Web Experience 2011 last night in Fort Lauderdale, FL. His presentation covered the evolution of web app development through modern real time technologies, cost and benefits of different transports, provided a deep dive into WebSocket, and advocated for using a scalable architecture with constant time and space event distribution. In case you missed it, you can view his presentation here. (We think it was pretty awesome.)
Today, Dylan will present Dojo 2.0: Modular, Mobile, and Reinventing Web App Development covering the reinvention of the Dojo Toolkit, one of the original Ajax toolkits, showing off the wide variety of features and approaches currently available in Dojo and give a sneak peak of the forthcoming Dojo 2.0 release. This is one presentation you won’t want to miss!
For those of you not attending Rich Web Experience 2011, or if you were so amazed that you want to see his presentations again, we will be making all of Dylan’s Rich Web Experience 2011 presentations available online shortly after the conference. To be one of the first to know when they are available, get social with SitePen. Follow us on SlideShare | Twitter | Google+.
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November 21st, 2011 – by Angela Segovia
SitePen’s CEO, and co-founder of the Dojo Toolkit, Dylan Schiemann will be kicking off Rich Web Experience 2011 with an engaging Real Time, Real Fast keynote address. His talk will cover WebSocket, one of the hottest new APIs in HTML5, which enables true duplex communication without the overhead, complexity, and extraneous latency of HTTP-based solutions. His keynote will also cover the use of streaming abstractions to minimize buffering, and will consider the performance implications of topic-based publish-subscribe distribution versus filtering techniques.
But that’s not all! Dylan is sticking around. (At SitePen, we miss him when he’s away.)
On Wednesday, November 30, Dylan will present Dojo 2.0: Modular, Mobile, and Reinventing Web App Development. This presentation will cover the reinvention of the Dojo Toolkit, one of the original Ajax toolkits. Through a series of improvements in modularity, performance, API improvements, adjustments for HTML5 and mobile platforms, the Dojo Toolkit will continue to provide a stellar platform for building web apps. Dylan will show off the wide variety of features and approaches currently available in Dojo, and give a sneak peak of the forthcoming Dojo 2.0 release.
Wait! You thought that was it? Wanna bet? (You do know that Dylan will talk about Dojo and the open web anytime, anyplace, right?)
On Thursday, December 1, Dylan is also presenting Never Bet Against the Open Web. Dylan will share his passion for the open web, explaining how the open web is quickly either replacing, diminishing, or lowering the barrier to entry for all native platform capabilities.
And of course, no conference would be complete without a dojo.beer. (And Dylan is going to need one after three presentations!)
Join us on Thursday, December 1 at 7pm for a dojo.beer.ftlauderdale, sponsored by SitePen. If you’re in the Fort Lauderdale area, or are attending Rich Web Experience 2011, then you are invited! We’d love to have you join us. This dojo.beer event does require you to sign up and space is limited. Sign up today!
Dylan’s Rich Web Experience 2011 presentations will be available online shortly after the conference. To be one of the first to know when they are available, be sure you follow us on SlideShare | Twitter | Google+.
Peace. Love. Dojo.
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November 11th, 2011 – by Angela Segovia
SitePen is excited to announce that Dojo Toolkit has won 1st Runner Up in the 2011 Packt Open Source Award for Open Source JavaScript Libraries! Congratulations to all of our competitors- jQuery, RaphaelJS, Sencha (ExtJS), and YUI Library. It was an honor to compete with this elite group of libraries. Thank you to everyone who voted for Dojo Toolkit . And most importantly, thank you to everyone who continues to believe in the greatness of Dojo.
About the Open Source JavaScript Libraries Award
Dojo Toolkit competed in the category is reserved for JavaScript libraries, libraries of pre-written JavaScript controls which allow for easier development of RIAs (Rich Internet Applications), visually enhanced applications or smoother server-side JavaScript functionalities. Voting took place between September 19 and October 31, 2011.
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November 7th, 2011 – by Ken Franqueiro
As a part of our October Free Dojo Support initiative, we received the following question from Manu Subramanian about how to manage communication between distinct components in a rich internet application:
We are building an application with dojo. It does have many inter connected interface parts. For example it does have a top bar with drop down buttons. The menu items opens tabs in a tab controller. In general we need to call functions from different widgets or there are many interconnections between widgets. Is it good to create a widget containing the small widgets to handle these interconnections with ‘widgetsInTemplate’ property set. Is there any change coming in near future in this regard. Especially related to ‘_TemplatedMixin’. Or is there any better architecture for this?
Excellent question, Manu! This line of inquiry often arises when constructing an application with distinct UI regions which need to intercommunicate. While there is not necessarily One Right Answer, let’s explore some promising options.
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