We’re 28 days away and as promised we’re releasing a tutorial everyday until DojoConf 2011! Here’s today’s tutorial! Dojo Data is the legacy data interface used to abstract data consumers (like widgets) from the concerns of data providers. While the new object store interface has superseded the dojo.data interface, there are a number of existing data stores that implement this API and is used by quite a few existing widgets.

As a part of our Free Dojo Support initiative, we received the following question from Rob about contributing back to the Dojo Toolkit: I have some questions around contributing back to the Dojo Toolkit project. We have used dojo heavily in the past 6 months, but haven’t yet really needed to join the community forums or discussions, instead finding all the answers we need online or by delving into the code.

Anxiously crossing off the days on your calendar until DojoConf 2011? We are too! We’re so excited to be sponsoring and speaking at DojoConf that we can hardly sleep… so instead of sleeping we’re writing Dojo tutorials and releasing a new one every day until DojoConf (Sept. 16, 2011), now you can stay up late hacking on Dojo just like us! Form Management with dojox.form.Manager “While there are elements within Dojo to allow for simple form validation, occasionally you may want a more powerful solution.

Viewing a collection of data in tabular or list form is one of the central components of many applications. We are working on a new design to fulfill the need for a grid to quickly navigate sets of data with familiar controls for productive user interaction in the new world of mobile, lightweight applications.

Dojo 1.7 includes a rewrite of the event handling system and introduces a new module, dojo/on, to provide lighter-weight, faster, more succinct, and more direct event handling. The new event system is highly optimized for mobile applications, with a lightweight footprint and cross-platform touch event normalization.

We just happen to have another reason to be in Chicago next week! We had a blast with the folks at Vodori last time so, we’ll buy the next round! Join us for a beer on July 27, 2011! REGISTER TODAY!. .

Next in our series of Dojo Tutorials, we have the first of three tutorials on the DataGrid! The DataGrid is the central component of many applications due to its effective and usable presentation of tabular data. In this tutorial we will look at how to define a grid’s layout and discuss the scrolling mechanism the DataGrid uses.

More dates!! Cheaper options!! More locations! Beer! WE HEAR YOU! Join us for any number of workshops across the US and rest assured, you’ll get a brain-load of code and we’ll even throw in a pizza and a (dojo.)beer!! View Public Workshop Schedule. .

Join us for foo, folks and fun! We just wanted to throw out a quick invite, to all the Silicon Valley-based JavaScripters out there, to join a couple of our boys for a couple of drinks! Meet us, meet Dojo, meet the bartender — whatever your angle — Let us know you’re coming!. .