Notice: There is a newer version of this post available The Dijit library provides an extremely powerful, flexible set of Dojo-based widgets with which you may easily enhance the look and functionality of your web application.  These widgets include drop down / popup menus, dialogs, page layouts, trees, progress bars, and form elements.

NodeJS has demonstrated impressive performance potential as an HTTP server. By combining highly optimized HTTP parsing algorithms with the speedy V8 JavaScript engine and using an event-based architecture, Node has posted eye-opening request handling numbers.

Like all top-notch JavaScript toolkits, Dojo tries to make its classes as flexible as possible, knowing that users of the toolkit may have different ideas about how a given class or class method should work. Luckily, Dojo provides you a number of methods by which you can subclass or modify existing classes.

The NoSQL movement continues to gain momentum as developers continue to grow weary of traditional SQL based database management and look for advancements in storage technology. A recent article provided a great roundup of some of the great new technologies in this area, particularly focusing on the different approaches to replication and partitioning.

The REST architecture has become increasingly recognized for its value in creating scalable, loosely coupled systems. REST is presented as a network interaction architectural style, not a programming methodology.

The dojo.Deferred module has long been a central component of Dojo, providing a powerful interface for asynchronous operations like HTTP requests. Dojo’s Deferreds are a form of promises, providing a separation of concerns between the mechanics of calling a function and the interface for interacting with the eventual asynchronous future result.

There’s really no obvious “winner” in the Apple vs. Adobe spat.

Dojo provides a feature-rich system for including JavaScript modules. Before we begin this journey to explore this concept in depth, you should know that absolutely no knowledge of the Dojo module, packaging, and build system are required to use Dojo.

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.