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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April 15th, 2011 – by blog
LAS VEGAS – At the IBM Impact 2011 conference here, IBM announced both Maqetta as well as the open-source contribution of its Maqetta HTML5 visual authoring tool to the Dojo Foundation.
Maqetta is an open-source project that provides WYSIWYG visual authoring of HTML5 user interfaces using drag-and-drop assembly, and supports both desktop and mobile user interfaces. The Maqetta application itself is authored in HTML, and therefore runs in the browser without requiring additional plug-ins or downloads. Maqetta is available under an open-source license. Ands users can download the source code and install it on their own server, customize the code to fit their needs and contribute improvements to the open-source project.
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Tags: ajax, Dojo, flash, Maqetta, silverlight
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April 6th, 2011 – by blog
HTML5 and EcmaScript 5 provide very powerful APIs that blur the line between the Web and the Desktop user experience. This has resulted in more organizations choosing to build their applications using Web technologies, rather than using the traditional Desktop approach. In order to explore the evolution of this trend, InfoQ had an interview with Dylan Schieman, CEO of SitePen and co-creator of the Dojo Toolkit, about the potential of the Web platform.
Check out the full interview at InfoQ.
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October 19th, 2010 – by blog
In recent years, the jQuery open source library and framework has gained greater attention among a slate of frameworks that includes Dojo, Prototype, GWT and others. While viewers say it has advantages in some parts of development, it remains one among many other important frameworks, although an important one.
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Tags: ajax, Dojo
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September 29th, 2010 – by blog
At its BlackBerry Developer Conference 2010 (DEVCON 2010), Research In Motion (RIM) demonstrated how the company is pushing its momentum with developers by providing a new web application platform, simplifying enterprise app development, launching both new analytics and advertising services, as well as opening up its BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) social platform to developers.
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May 11th, 2009 – by Dylan Schiemann
InfoQ recently conducted a virtual panel via email regarding how the JavaScript frameworks will evolve in order to take advantage of these new APIs. The panel featured representatives from some of the most widely deployed projects that deal with client-side JavaScript. SitePen’s Dylan Schiemann was part of this panel:
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April 19th, 2009 – by Dylan Schiemann
TIBCO, Dojo Foundation and SitePen Work Together To Drive Innovation in Application Development
TIBCO Software Inc. (NASDAQ: TIBX), announced it has completed the Dojo approval process to donate TIBCO General Interface™ source code to the Dojo Foundation. TIBCO and the Dojo Foundation have established the General Interface project to give developers access to the award winning General Interface™ source code and promote the rapid creation of reliable Ajax applications, components and portlets with the look and feel of desktop graphical user interface applications.
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Tags: Dojo, dojo foundation, general interface
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April 19th, 2009 – by Dylan Schiemann
Recently Dojo 1.3 was released alongside project PlugD which adds jQuery flavor to the Dojo toolkit. InfoQ has a Q&A with Dylan Schiemann, CEO of SitePen and co-creator of Dojo about the latest release, the evolution of the toolkit and TIBCO’s General Interface choice to join the Dojo foundation.
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Tags: Dojo, general interface, plugd
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March 24th, 2009 – by Dylan Schiemann
At first glance, the Persevere database looks like most of the others. You push pairs of keys and values into it, and it stores them away. But that’s just the beginning. Persevere provides a well-established hierarchy for objects that makes it possible to add much more structure to your database, giving it much of the form that we traditionally associate with the last generation of databases. Persevere is more of a back-end storage facility for JavaScript objects created by AJAX toolkits like Dojo, a detail that makes sense given that some of the principal developers work for SitePen, a consulting group with a core group of Dojo devotees.
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September 4th, 2008 – by canderson
The programmers in the trenches of Web development can breathe a bit easier now that a major committee planning the future of the JavaScript standard has decided to focus on small, incremental changes that will improve the performance in Web browsers. Some members of the ECMA International standards committee still have bigger dreams to enhance the language, known more formally as ECMAScript, to tackle more complicated projects, but these plans receded as the group focused on clearer and more present needs.
Kris Zyp, a researcher at SitePen and the Dojo Foundation’s representative on the committee, said, “Our interest is empowering the Web developers, not seeing ECMAScript as a pure research language.”
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