Hot on the heels of the Dojo 1.7.1 release, we are excited to officially publish SitePen’s 1.7-specific updates to not one, not two but ALL 55 Dojo 1.6 tutorials. As you can guess, this was no small feat given that Dojo 1.7 is loaded with significant changes that encompass best practices on the road to 2.0. We’ve revamped the full Dojo 1.6 tutorial series to cover, not only how to do the things you already knew, but to prepare your team and your web app for what’s to come.

Oh and of course, the tutorials are rewritten to take full advantage of the new Dojo loader’s support for AMD, and they lay a groundwork for preparing your application to be lighter and more modular than ever!

So raise your glass and toast with us to the completion and release of the Dojo 1.7 Tutorials and to the best JavaScript toolkit available for scalable web apps!

Ready to upgrade to 1.7?

We stand ready to bring your code current to the latest release or kick off your project right out of the gate with Dojo 1.7! In addition to our dedication to Dojo documentation and tutorials we offer a comprehensive set of services to make your project a success!

Dojo Workshops – Learn Dojo 1.7 from the experts. We’ve posted a nationwide, 2012 workshop schedule that will exceed the expectations of developers and engineering budgets alike! If these dates and locations don’t work for you and your team, reach out to us about our private Dojo workshops.

Dojo Support – SitePen offers 5 different plans, all of which are provided to you by Dojo experts who will provide your team with the knowledge and experience necessary to support your web development efforts. Get pro-active and purchase a plan that will support your team with Dojo 1.0 through 1.7 and eliminate potential schedule-busting roadblocks on your path to success!

Development – Upgrading to Dojo 1.7 will improve your web application. If you know this to be true but don’t have the resources to make it happen, engage our development team to work for you and let us do what we do best – Make you look good. Contact us for a custom quote for your Dojo 1.7 upgrade.

If you’ve been reading about Dojo 1.7, the first thing you’re probably wondering is, what is this AMD thing that everyone is talking about? Check out Dylan’s post at the Dojo Toolkit blog to “Learn more about AMD!“.

In addition to the useful links Dylan provides, you can also learn more about AMD at a SitePen Dojo Workshop.  AMD + Dojo 1.7= Awesomeness.

2012 Year of Dojo

SitePen is so dedicated to providing you with the highest quality Dojo Toolkit education in the industry that we will be in 11 states, providing 22 Dojo Workshops throughout 2012.  Whether you want to learn the basics of Dojo or sharpen your Dojo skills, we have a workshop just for you.  We guarantee that all of our Dojo Workshops will be taught by our expert engineers.  We promise you won’t be subjected to listening to some trainer who can’t live without his slides.  Wondering if our Dojo Workshops will cover Dojo 1.7?  The answer is yes.

Register in 2011. Attend in 2012. Where will you start your 2012 Year of Dojo celebration? Check out the full list of SitePen’s 2012 Dojo workshops.

Dojo Toolkit has some vocal fans. Here’s a random sample of what we’ve found recently on Twitter:

Have I been living under a rock? How come I’ve never come across Dojo toolkit? I am going to have to learn the ins and outs… @ deshiknaves

Working on my #Dojo 1.7 presentation, it’s so tough to pick the best new bits in 1.7, there’s so much amazing stuff! @ thomasj

i’ve been working with design part of this system and found out that #dojo is better than #JQuery in terms of performance.. #toolkit @ hayadeen

Psst! What’s that you say?  You want to learn Dojo in January? No problem! Join us in Las Vegas, NV or Raleigh, NC. (Did we mention all of our 2012 workshops will cover Dojo 1.7?)

jUMP into Dojo - Las Vegas, NV - January 9, 2012
jUMP into Dojo is the best starting point for any developer wanting to learn about Dojo, Ajax and Rich Internet Application development. This workshop gives a rapid introduction to the capabilities of Dojo as well as the experience in applying them to solve real-world problems.  And did we mention this one is in Las Vegas?  Enuff said.

Dojo Master – Raleigh, NC - January 18-19, 2012
Dojo Master is our black diamond workshop, taking the advanced scripter through the expert techniques needed when tackling the unique problems web applications can bring. This workshop is best for the intermediate-advanced developer who has used Dojo in several projects and who wants to get the most out of Dojo and JavaScript to make reliable and scalable applications.

What are you waiting for? Register today! Use promo code IHEARTDOJO and get 10% off!

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+.