Thoughts on XML, Ajax, and UI Development April 9, 2007 InfoQ had an interesting article recently asking Is XML the Future of UI Development?. I believe that the author of the article is significantly underestimating the resourcefulness of JavaScript developers:…
On writing training programs April 9, 2007 In the past two or so months that I’ve been an employee of SitePen, my main task has been to design and write the materials for the majority of our…
Dojo Offline Toolkit Status Report for Week Ending April 7th, 2007 April 9, 2007 This is it folks! This is the last week of dev for Dojo Offline until we pop the Dojo Offline beta out the door, either later this week or on…
Dojo Offline Toolkit Status Report for Week Ending April 1st, 2007 April 2, 2007 Last Week We finished a bunch of big tasks last week, mostly having to do with fit and finish and our installers: * The Moxie demo for Dojo Offline used…
AjaxWorld and SXSW talks on dojo.gfx March 27, 2007 At SXSW and AjaxWorld, I had the opportunity to talk about dojo.gfx and native web vector graphics in general. The amazing thing about these talks was the large number of…
Dojo Offline Toolkit Status Report for Week Ending March 25th, 2007 March 26, 2007 Last Week We’re almost there! Here’s a laundry list of some of the code checkins from the last week: * We now provide a way to give a ‘magic’ domain…
Dojo Offline Toolkit Status Report for Week Ending March 18th, 2007 March 19, 2007 Last Week Last week we did lots and lots of coding on the local proxy for Dojo Offline. Here’s a laundry list of some of the code checkins and QA…
Dojo Offline Toolkit Status Report for Week Ending March 11th, 2007 March 12, 2007 Last Week Development was a bit slow last week since I was at Microsoft for a few days at their research laboraties and TechFest, and I gave a keynote at…
Writing RPM packages is easier than you might think March 10, 2007 Hello, Writing RPM packages seems to intimidate some, but it can be easier than you might guess. Below, I will: point out the online reference RPM documentation describe one method…
Moxie Demo March 6, 2007 Someone managed to upload a document that broke Moxie — I’ve removed this document from the Moxie database and cleaned up most of the test docs people added to Moxie,…
Dojo Offline Toolkit Status Report for Week Ending March 5th, 2007 March 5, 2007 Sorry about getting this up a little late in the day; I’m actually in Redmond, Washington right now to attend a Microsoft research event at their R&D labs. I just…
Screencast of Dojo Offline + Demo + Release Download February 26, 2007 [Note: This blog post is out of date. For up to date information on Dojo Offline please see the official web page.] Hi folks; lots of news on the Dojo…
Dojo Offline Toolkit Status Report for Week Ending February 25th, 2007 February 26, 2007 Instead of doing a status report this week I have created a screencast and blog post: Screencast of Dojo Offline + Demo + Release Download
ISOC Roundup February 25, 2007 I got back late in the week from a trip to the ISOC-IL annual conference where I gave a full-day tutorial on Ajax and Dojo (with a little bit of…
Dojo Offline Toolkit Status Report for Week Ending February 18th, 2007 February 19, 2007 Last Week The JavaScript layer for Dojo Offline, including the Moxie demo, were brought to functional completion. This means we have syncing working, including local data storage — Moxie now…
Dojo Offline Toolkit Status Report for Week Ending February 11th, 2007 February 12, 2007 Overview Every week we will be sending out a status report on the Dojo Offline Toolkit project to keep folks abreast of what we have accomplished the last week and…
New Dojo Offline Release: Offline Files + Automatic Network Status February 5, 2007 [Note: This blog post is out of date. For up to date information on Dojo Offline please see the official web page.] Hot off the presses, here is another release…
Dojo Offline Toolkit Status Report for Week Ending February 4th, 2007 February 5, 2007 Overview Every week we will be sending out a status report on the Dojo Offline Toolkit project to keep folks abreast of what we have accomplished the last week and…
Code Finished for Dojo Offline’s Default User Interface January 31, 2007 [Note: This blog post is out of date. For up to date information on Dojo Offline please see the official web page.] We have posted up the default user-interface widget…
Dojo Offline Toolkit Status Report for Week Ending January 28th, 2007 January 29, 2007 Overview Every week we will be sending out a status report on the Dojo Offline Toolkit project to keep folks abreast of what we have accomplished the last week and…
Dojo Offline Tookit: the business case January 27, 2007 Several people have inquired as to what SitePen’s motivation is for working on the Dojo Offline Toolkit and in such an open manner. Besides the typical business and social benefits…
The Dojo Offline API January 23, 2007 [Note: This blog post is out of date. For up to date information on Dojo Offline please see the official web page.] The last few weeks we’ve been putting together…
Dojo Offline Toolkit Status Report for Week Ending January 22st, 2007 January 22, 2007 Overview Every week we will be sending out a status report on the Dojo Offline Toolkit project to keep folks abreast of what we have accomplished the last week and…
Gimme a “D”! January 19, 2007 This post marks the one week anniversary of the inception of the Dojo cheer squad. Though the facts are still unverified, this may well be the first ever all-male cheer…
Weekly Updates on Dojo Offline Toolkit January 18, 2007 Just to let folks know, we are posting weekly status updates for the Dojo Offline Toolkit over on the SitePen Labs blog every Monday. Make sure to check it out…
