As part of our great updates to the Dojo Tutorials for Dojo 1.8, we’ve been busy creating several new tutorials. This tutorial teaches you how to easily handle keyboard events with Dojo’s event normalization and dojo/keys implementation.

Dojo Charting comes with dozens of stylish themes you can effortlessly plug into any chart. But what if you want your charts to match your website’s design or business’ branding? No worries: Dojo’s charting library allows you to create custom themes! All of Dojo’s charting themes live within the dojox/charting/themes namespace.

As part of our great updates to the Dojo Tutorials for Dojo 1.8, we’ve been busy creating several new tutorials. In JavaScript applications, you’re working with objects all day long.

Dojo has an API for Comet-style real-time communication based on the WebSocket API. WebSocket provides a bi-directional connection to servers that is ideal for pushing messages from a server to a client in real-time.

Debugging JavaScript can be a tedious and frustrating chore. To compound the already difficult task of debugging, browser vendors each have their own style of error messaging, some of which are confusing, cryptic, or downright misleading to the untrained eye.

In our recent post on dgrid and Dojo Nano, we showed a technique of using nested require statements in order to make use of optimized layers using the Dojo build system. As a refresher, a layer is Dojo’s terminology for a file that combines many JavaScript resources into a single file.

Juan Carlos Galindo Navarro of Venezuela-based RIATeam shares his early dgrid experience with SitePen. Here’s what he had to say.

As Dojo moves toward its 2.0 release, our focus has been on giving developers tools that will help them be productive in any JavaScript environment. This means creating consistent APIs across all environments.

With Wednesday’s release of Dojo 1.8, there are many exciting improvements to check out! Our top goal for this release was to significantly improve the quality of Dojo’s documentation. SitePen proudly contributed in the following areas: Helped make many of the more than 500 fixes to our documentation based on community feedback (thank you!) Helped improve the content found in the reference guide Developed a brand new, extensible JavaScript-based documentation parser, which we use to generate output for the API viewer Updated 70% of the existing Dojo tutorials to be accurate for Dojo 1.8.