January 30th, 2012 – by Angela Segovia
Most 2012 trend lists include 12 trends. (Get it? 12 in ’12. Of course you do.). Because we are not fond of adding unnecessary or filler content (read code), Dylan has come up with 11 trends for 2012.
1. Mobile
Mobile will gain even more momentum in 2012. There’s no doubt we will see many new APIs, development tools and capabilities in place to both build and install most any app as a web app rather than using native technology.
2. AMD
Following on the increasing emergence of microtoolkits in 2010 and 2011, 2012 will be the year everything becomes an AMD module, making it easier for Dojo, jQuery, MooTools and other toolkits to play nicely together.
3. Builders & Loaders
With so many modules, performance, loading and building will need to be optimized. Use of package management will become increasingly important.
4… Check out the rest of Dylan’s 11 Trends for 2012! And don’t forget that SitePen’s got your back when it comes to implementing efficient and scalable solutions. Contact us today!
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December 2nd, 2011 – by Angela Segovia
SitePen’s Dylan Schiemann delivered the last of his three Rich Web Experience 2011 presentations yesterday, Never Bet Against the Open Web.
Dylan had this to say about his time at #RWX2011:
The level of interest in AMD, object stores, and mobile is impressive. And the excitement around the potential of xstyle and put-selector was also very cool to see. The community is seemingly rabid for new tools and features that make development easier, and it’s incredible to be part of that.
And if you haven’t seen this already- Dojo 1.7 Released!
We have made all of Dylan’s Rich Web Experience 2011 (and many other) presentations available here. Don’t forget to follow SitePen on Twitter and Google+!
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December 1st, 2011 – by Angela Segovia
After an amazing Real Time, Real Fast keynote address on the opening night of Rich Web Experience 2011, Dylan delivered an authoritative presentation on Dojo 2.0: Modular, Mobile, and Reinventing Web App Development. He talked about the reinvention of the Dojo Toolkit, showed off the wide variety of features and approaches currently available in Dojo, and even gave a sneak peak of the forthcoming Dojo 2.0 release!
Hot off the presses! Dylan just penned this announcement on the release of Dojo 1.7!
Today Dylan will share his passion for the open web with all Rich Web Experience 2011 attendees through his Never Bet Against the Open Web presentation. He will showcase his expert knowledge of the open web through explanations of how the open web is quickly replacing, diminishing or lowering the barrier to entry for all native platform capabilities.
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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October 19th, 2011 – by Angela Segovia
Featured as one of three sessions to see on Monday’s web track at the BlackBerry DevCon Americas conference in San Francisco this week, SitePen’s CEO Dylan Schiemann presented Make Beautiful Apps Faster Using the Dojo Mobile Toolkit. His session talked about creating superior experiences using standard open web technologies and presented an overview of the Dojo Toolkit, HTML5 and mobile-specific features and new Dojo APIs that fundamentally change web application development for the better.
Missed his presentation? View it here.
Find out how SitePen can help you to Make Beautiful Apps Faster Using the Dojo Mobile Toolkit. Contact us today!
Tags: BlackBerry DevCon, development, Dojo, Dojo Mobile
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October 3rd, 2011 – by Angela Segovia
Yep. You read that right. We said free. Not free as in you get a free keychain with purchase. Actually free- no purchase required. All you have to do is submit your question as a comment to our Facebook Note on this same topic. From all questions submitted, our world class SitePen support team will choose one question to answer at the end of the month.
Your question can relate to any of the following:
- Web Development Advice
- Architectural Guidance
- Questions about JavaScript, Dojo Toolkit, HTML, CSS & Browsers
- Examples and guidance on how to use a specific piece of Dojo functionality
- Dojo bug fixes (where documented functionality is broken)
What you have to do:
- “Like” us on Facebook
- Post a detailed question or support request to the FREE SitePen Support note.
SitePen will choose the question to answer by the last day of the month. (Don’t worry. If you’re question isn’t chosen this month, you can submit it again next month!)
If your question is chosen, we’ll post our response to the SitePen blog for your learning pleasure (and for the Dojo community too)!
Can’t wait for an answer? Sign up for a SitePen Support plan and have ALL of your questions answered on a daily basis by our expert SitePen Support engineers.
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Tags: Contest, Free, October 2011, SitePen Support
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March 15th, 2011 – by Torrey Rice
Ask anyone who has ever contemplated using the Dojo Toolkit and they’ll tell you that its Achilles’ heel is documentation. Articles online are generally outdated and the Dojo Reference Guide and API docs, while helpful for existing Dojo developers, are anything but comprehensive if you’re new to Dojo and don’t know exactly where to start when building Dojo-based web and mobile apps.
While there are books that have been published and a smattering of resources scattered about online, there has never been a cohesive, up-to-date resource for learning how to use the greatness that is the Dojo Toolkit. Until now.
Announcing Dojo Tutorials
With the release of Dojo 1.6, SitePen has written a starter set of Dojo tutorials for your learning pleasure! These tutorials don’t just show you the code and expect you to figure out the rest, they explain how and why to use the various parts of the Dojo Toolkit — the right way. All you have to say is Hello Dojo, and you’ll be placed on the path to coding success.
Discovery
The first set of tutorials are authored by SitePen engineers (many of whom are core Dojo committers) and are easy to find within the Dojo Toolkit Documentation section. The Dojo Reference Guide has also been updated making the Dojo Toolkit website the definitive place to go for Dojo documentation.
Want to see a specific Tutorial? Want to Learn More?
Is there something you’d like to learn how to do with Dojo? Always wanted to know how something in Dojo works? Leave us a message in the blog comments and we’ll see about getting a tutorial created for you.
Or sign-up for an upcoming SitePen Dojo Workshop to get a fully immersive hands-on experience with Dojo.
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June 11th, 2010 – by Kris Zyp
JSGI (JavaScript gateway interface) is the broadly adopted standard for server-side JavaScript web applications and middleware. JSGI is designed specifically for ease of use in asynchronous, evented environments, and consequently JSGI has been a perfect fit building applications on Node. JSGI-Node has existed for sometime as lightweight JSGI server/adapter for running JSGI-based applications on Node. However, “Connect” was recently released as a new alternate middleware system for Node. This spurred me to make sure JSGI-Node was optimized, and compare the Connect middleware design to JSGI.
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March 10th, 2010 – by Dylan Schiemann
The short answer: Yes, if it changes its strategy to one that embraces and augments the open web ecosystem, rather than continuing down the path of trying to compete with or replace it.
With the recent anti-Flash, pro-HTML5 buzz caused by the iPad and sites like YouTube offering HTML5-enabled video alternatives, I thought it would be useful to share my thoughts on the opportunities and struggles Adobe faces with the Flash platform. Given my propensity as a strong open-source advocate, it may seem odd that I bother to discuss this, but it’s an interesting thought experiment for me on where Flash still excels compared to the open web, and how it can leverage that to thrive as part of the world going forward.
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Tags: flash, open web
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