The Latest from SitePen Labs May 13th, 2008 at 12:01 am by Dylan Schiemann
We’re pleased to announce the two latest projects from SitePen Labs: Paver and Persevere!
Everyone can “Ask the Experts” May 11th, 2008 at 10:30 pm by Kevin Dangoor
In March, we introduced the SitePen Support service to provide high-quality support for Dojo, DWR and Cometd from the people who know those projects inside and out.
We’re always watching to see how we can make our services better and after listening to our early support clients we’re making changes to ensure that clients are successful with the products we support.
Which Comet Implementation? March 27th, 2008 at 12:15 pm by Dylan Schiemann
As people are becoming more interested in Comet, “which Comet implementation should I use?” is becoming a common question.
At Comet Daily, we recently had a post comparing the maturity of various Comet implementations. From this, we came up with the idea of a Comet Comparison Guide to make it easy to learn about the major differences between implementations. We still have to add information about the Comet servers not developed by the contributors to Comet Daily. Once finished, we hope to have the definitive source for quickly comparing the options available for implementing Comet.
Now Available: Commercial Support for the Dojo Toolkit, DWR, and Cometd March 14th, 2008 at 3:54 pm by Dylan Schiemann
We’re very excited about our new commercial support offering for the Dojo Toolkit, DWR, and Cometd. So what is SitePen Support and what do we have to offer?
When getting started with something different or new, there’s rarely documentation or a tutorial that addresses things in quite the right way. As such, we offer unlimited advice as part of most of our support packages. This is especially useful when you don’t quite know the right question to ask, or what the best approach is to solve a problem.
Commercial Support Now Available from the Co-Creators and Contributors of the Dojo Toolkit, DWR, and Cometd March 13th, 2008 at 4:02 pm by Dylan Schiemann
Palo Alto, CA - March 13, 2008. SitePen is responding to the growing demand for commercial web application assistance by launching a support service for the Dojo Toolkit, Cometd, DWR, and related web technologies. SitePen Support is available immediately to provide development teams with the fast answers needed to build great web applications under short development schedules. Developers can get help directly from the creators and core contributors of these popular open source Ajax and Comet toolkits.
“SitePen has assembled an extremely talented team of open source web application developers,” said Dylan Schiemann, CEO of SitePen, Inc. and co-creator of the Dojo Toolkit. “Development teams are increasingly asking for fast responses and peace of mind when using open source toolkits, and we’re here to provide additional support to help developers be as efficient as possible by getting assistance quickly.”
SitePen Support removes the worry of unforeseen problems and allows development teams to focus on building amazing user experiences. Teams increase their efficiency throughout the initial build and the maintenance and adaptation of a successful deployment. Depending on the package purchased, SitePen Support customers can get assistance not only with the Dojo Toolkit, DWR, and Cometd, but with the applications built with these toolkits.
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“As Ajax becomes ubiquitous, the need for reliable, commercial support for applications built with open source toolkits becomes increasingly important,” said Alex Russell, Director of R&D and SitePen, Inc., and co-creator of the Dojo Toolkit and Cometd. “The ability to get reliable solutions quickly and the knowledge that there are companies out there supporting open source software reduces adoption risk for companies and enterprises.”
Full details and pricing information are available at the new sitepen.com. SitePen Support is available for teams ranging from small startups to large corporations, and starts at $995.
SitePen, Inc., based in Silicon Valley, focuses on building rich, internet applications that push the limits of the open web. Its top-shelf development team works obsessively to define the user experience while developing clean, functional applications for companies throughout the consumer, enterprise, and open source spaces. Online at www.sitepen.com.
Bayeux as JSON, Python Cometd Improvements January 21st, 2008 at 1:47 pm by Dylan Schiemann
We’ve been working on a number of improvements to the Python implementation of Cometd. Cometd is one of the many open source projects that SitePen supports (DWR, Dojo Toolkit, Dojo Offline, Dojo Grid, etc.). We’re committed to improving open source products by adding new features and improving performance and reliability.
We’ve made a nice improvement for implementing the 1.0.1 version of the Bayeux spec, making it and the associated error codes available as JSON files, so it can be pulled into any JSON compliant language! This can be used as both a programmatic and visual reference for Bayeux protocol message composition, assertion checking on message fields, consistent error message handling, etc.
Today, we’re also pleased to announce the following additions for the Python version of Cometd:
Most of these changes should arrive in Cometd’s subversion repository this week, thanks to the hard work of valued SitePen consultant Gloria Willadsen.
Eugene Lazutkin, Peter Higgins & Kris Zyp Join SitePen January 2nd, 2008 at 12:02 pm by Dylan Schiemann
As we kick off 2008, I’m pleased and extremely excited to announce that we’ve added some awesome, new talent to the SitePen team.
Eugene Lazutkin is highly respected in Dojo circles for his work on Drag-n-drop, GFX (2D and 3D), Charting, and many other crucial 0.9 and 1.0 features. For the past two years, Eugene has also been a key Dojo mentor for the Google Summer of Code. His deep background in 2D and 3D graphics is an asset to any team and we’re looking forward to working with Eugene to help push the state of open web data visualization even further.
Peter Higgins is a prolific contributor to Dojo, improving Dijit and developing tons of great new UI controls. When not building great UIs, Peter has been doggedly helping us build a stronger Dojo community. In addition to joining SitePen, Peter is also assuming the role of official Dojo Evangelist for the Dojo Toolkit.
Kris Zyp is well known for his open source work on JavaScript and JSON. Kris has created numerous projects and products including Authenteo, a web content management system, Persevere, a set of tools for persistence and distributed computing, and JSPON, an extension to JSON for advanced techniques such as multiple referencing, circular referencing, object identification, modification, and structural definition.
Strengthening the SitePen team is one of our primary goals for 2008, allowing us to continue to push the limits of the Open Web! Happy New Year!
Dojo on the iPhone conference slides September 27th, 2007 at 1:55 pm by Dylan Schiemann
I recently had the opportunity to speak about Dojo on the iPhone at AjaxWorld West. The session was a straightforward, if not colorful, review of the current state of app development for the iPhone.
In preparing for the presentation, I needed to install several native applications in order to create high quality screenshots for my slides. As a result, I presented the audience with an overview of this information because there are a variety of useful development tools that require installation.
Because Christopher Allen gave a talk just prior to mine with an iPhone and iPod Touch Ajax overview, I dove right into specifics about the current issues and problems with iPhone development for Dojo developers. I wrapped things up by walking through a few working examples of Dojo-based applications, some optimized for the iPhone and others not. At the end of the talk, I promised a forthcoming, iPhone-optimized Dojo build that removes features and code for items not supported on the iPhone. We hope to have that ready in time for the 1.0 release of Dojo on October 31.
The press seems to have enjoyed the session, with Network World running a fairly lengthy article titled Unauthorized iPhone Apps Market Flourishes. I should make it clear that my talk focused mainly on pitfalls and frustrations that developers face, but the iPhone is by far the best mobile, open web, development solution on the market today.
Conference Slides September 9th, 2007 at 9:39 pm by Dylan Schiemann
Slides from our recent talks at the Ajax Experience and the Rich Web Experience are now available. Newly added talks include:
The iPhone Screenshot Quest September 4th, 2007 at 11:10 pm by Dylan Schiemann
I speak at a number of conferences and am giving a couple of talks later this year about Dojo on the iPhone. Of course, giving a talk without being able to show demos is frustrating, but giving a talk without having high-quality screenshots is silly. There wasn’t a solution known outside of Apple until recently, and it is still a bit of a process, or I daresay a bit of a quest. These instructions are for Mac users… I’m sure the steps are pretty similar for Windows users as well.
