Posts Tagged ‘JavaScript’

Learning Dojo

Friday, March 5th, 2010

There is so much existing information about the Dojo Toolkit that it can be challenging to know where to begin. The following is a Dojo curriculum (I use this term loosely) highlighting community resources and a logical path for self-learning the foundational parts of Dojo.  If you understand the purpose of a variable and function, or you are new to Dojo, then this is for you.

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Queued and AIR Issues, Part II

Monday, April 6th, 2009

In Part I of Queued and AIR issues, I talked about some of the challenges we faced during the development of Queued, our AIR application that allows you to manage your Netflix queues. In this post, I’ll discuss five other issues we ran across.

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Queued and AIR Issues, Part I

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

During the course of developing Queued, we ran across a number of challenges developing with AIR that we needed to solve. Some were very difficult to get around, while others were the result of our team needing to think outside the web-based paradigm. In this post, I’ll talk about four issues we ran across that ended up shaping part of the Queued codebase.

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The Tech of SitePen Support

Tuesday, August 19th, 2008

SitePen’s Support service is built using a variety of interesting techniques and technologies. Read on to see how we built a system that treats the web browser as a real client tier and bridges the worlds of JavaScript, Python and PHP seamlessly to provide a great experience for our customers.

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