Dynamic Languages and Your Mom, 2.0 March 3, 2008 SitePen was in the news recently: Simplexity Rising: Web usability reveals itself to be a game of hide-and-seek covers our session, “Your Mom, 2.0”, for the upcoming SXSW 2008, and…
Jaxer, Dojo, DWR, and SitePen February 29, 2008 From a recent interview with Kevin Hakman on Ajaxian: “I personally love the ability to write a script that runs on the server, but call it from the client as…
Adobe Engages SitePen to Make Dojo Toolkit Compatible with Adobe AIR February 29, 2008 While the media has beat us to the punch with countless “on AIR” puns (and the list of companies using the word air grows), we completed work to make the…
SitePen Announces Updates to the Dojo Toolkit to Enable Adobe AIR Compatibility February 25, 2008 Palo Alto, CA – February 25, 2008 – SitePen Inc. today announced updates to the Dojo Toolkit that allow Ajax developers to easily deploy web applications created with the Dojo…
Bayeux as JSON, Python Cometd Improvements January 21, 2008 We’ve been working on a number of improvements to the Python implementation of Cometd. Cometd is one of the many open source projects that SitePen supports (DWR, Dojo Toolkit, Dojo…
Eugene Lazutkin, Peter Higgins & Kris Zyp Join SitePen January 2, 2008 As we kick off 2008, I’m pleased and extremely excited to announce that we’ve added some awesome, new talent to the SitePen team. Eugene Lazutkin is highly respected in Dojo…
Standards and Recommendations December 19, 2007 In response to recent articles by Andy Clarke and David Baron, Alex recently said that the W3C cannot save us. The most significant point being made is that you cannot…
London Calling December 11, 2007 It takes a lot to get us revved up enough to do a press release and this is one of those rare occasions! We’re thrilled to formally announce: The creation…
Kevin Dangoor joins SitePen November 9, 2007 You’ve probably heard of Kevin from his work on the TurboGears Python web framework. We’re fans of that work and his approach with TurboGears, namely taking great components and integrating,…
dojox.gfx on the iPhone November 5, 2007 Chris Mitchell of IBM had a few days of free time prior to the Dojo 1.0 release, and so he added Canvas support for dojox.gfx. While Canvas does not offer…
Announcing Dojo 1.0 November 5, 2007 Last night, we helped put the finishing touches on Dojo 1.0. 3 1/2 years in the making, we’re extremely pleased to reach this great milestone. The Dojo community has done…
Dojo Grid Update October 13, 2007 Recently, the first draft of the new Dojo Grid made its way into the DojoX trunk. There’s still a significant amount of work to complete prior to the Dojo 1.0…
Dojo on the iPhone conference slides September 27, 2007 I recently had the opportunity to speak about Dojo on the iPhone at AjaxWorld West. The session was a straightforward, if not colorful, review of the current state of app…
Dojo Workshop Updates and the Grails eXchange! September 26, 2007 With the recent launch of Dojo 0.9 and the planned launch of 1.0 in late October, the SitePen Dojo training courses have been revamped and now focus exclusively on the…
The Dojo Grid September 16, 2007 The single, most asked question with the Dojo 0.9 release has been, “Where’s the grid widget?” We’re finally able to address this request with today’s announcement that SitePen, Mozilla Foundation,…
Conference Slides September 9, 2007 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…
The iPhone Screenshot Quest September 4, 2007 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…
Dojo 0.9 released August 20, 2007 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…
ajax experience recap July 31, 2007 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…
Thinking outside the (browser) box July 4, 2007 Apple’s iPhone web application development tips are yet the latest example of blurring the lines between the power of the web and the desktop. The example that drives this point…
SVG missing on the iPhone July 3, 2007 Safari on the iPhone does not currently have support for SVG. Safari 3 beta on Mac and Windows is currently the best browser on the planet for SVG performance, so…
Cometd on the iPhone July 2, 2007 It’s been widely reported that Drag-n-drop on the JavaScript layer is going to be a significant challenge. The canonical fun with magnets demo for Cometd relies on Drag-n-Drop for moving…
Google Gears, Dojo Offline, and SitePen May 30, 2007 Shortly after we began working on Dojo Offline, our friends at Google invited us over to the Googleplex to tell us about their efforts in building an open source project…
Upcoming events May 19, 2007 We’re speaking at and/or attending a number of upcoming events and conferences. We hope to see you there! May 20-23: Alex will be attending the IEEE Privacy and Security Symposium…
Ambassador Publications announces Dojo-based app May 2, 2007 A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about Ajax Dark Matter and the variety of interesting things happening behind the scenes. This week, Ambassador Publications announced the launch of their…
