PALO ALTO, Sep 17, 2007: The open source Dojo Toolkit is receiving a new grid widget thanks to the generous support and collaboration of the Dojo Community. The Dojo Grid is a key component for Ajax and web application developers because it is able to handle large amounts of information efficiently and intuitively.

Slides from our recent talks at the Ajax Experience and the Rich Web Experience are now available. Newly added talks include: Standards Heresy: Dojo and the Rise of Open Web Pragmatism Dojo 0.9: Faster, Leaner, and Dijit? Comet: Low Latency Data Transit or Really Bad Pun?.

I speak at a number of conferences and am giving a couple of talks later this year about Dojo on the iPhone. Of course, giving a talk without being able to show demos is frustrating, but giving a talk without having high-quality screenshots is silly.

Alex has announced the final release of Dojo 0.9: After a complete re-think about the purpose and value of Dojo, and after months of grueling ground-up work on the part of the entire Dojo team, I’m happy, proud, and excited to announce that Dojo 0.9.0 is available. And AOL is already hosting 0.9 in their CDN.

Spaghetti code comes from all of your objects needing to know where all your other objects are so they can communicate. I used to attempt to alleviate this problem by creating a switchboard object that acted as a message bus.

I’m excited to announce that SitePen is hiring in our R&D department, which roughly translates into “do research on how to improve the Open Web, make it a reality through Open Source software, and get paid to do it”. If that sounds like your dream job, we want to talk to you..

These are truly exciting times. Not only for SitePen, but for the web application space in general.

Lately, I’ve been receiving, more and more, pleas from developers looking for ways to get around their legal departments when it comes to using open source technology for their company’s app. “The suits don’t get it.”, “My lawyer is paranoid.”, “Our legal team doesn’t want the risk!”, “Do you sell IP protection?” Um no.

Last week was the latest installment of the Ajax Experience in San Francisco. More low-key than last year’s conference, I left the main corridor only to give two talks, one on Dojo and one on Comet.