The Ajax Experience Framework Summit
We talked a few months ago about something new we're doing at the Ajax Experience this year: the "Framework Summit." Basically, we're providing space for Prototype, jQuery, and Dojo to hold their own ....... read more
Fri,
29 Aug 2008
WaveMaker 4: Point and Click Ajax
WaveMaker Studio 4.0 the Ajax based visual development platform for creating web applications has been released. Version 4.0 includes a new look and feel, usability improvements, and a host of new fea ....... read more
Wed,
20 Aug 2008
Nice new Dojo aggregate effects
Dojo has some nice new compound effects in the works. Some of the new effects include block fades, disintergrate, explode, shear, and pinwheel.
Each effect can be tweaked with config such as:
The ....... read more
Mon,
18 Aug 2008
Deft-fully using Dojo and Flex
Tom Trenka of SitePen has created a new top-level Dojo package called Deft which "focuses on ActionScript components created in support of the various projects within the Dojo Toolkit (mostly for Doj ....... read more
Mon,
04 Aug 2008
Dojango: Two great tastes in one can!
Dojango, a template Django application that includes full Dojo support baked in, has been released by Tobias Klipstein, Nikolai Onken, and Wolfram Kriesing.
It provides capabilities to easily swit ....... read more
Mon,
28 Jul 2008
window.name meet Dojox.io.windowName
We have written about using window.name as a transport and Kris Zyp has just posted about how Dojo has created a new Dojox.io.windowName module.
The window.name transport is a new technique for sec ....... read more
Wed,
23 Jul 2008
PubTools Search: Fast client-side searching with Gears
Brad Neuberg has built a very easy to use client side search tool called PubTools Search using Gears. The project is open source and provides a great avenue to share knowledge on Gears itself.
To acco ....... read more
Tue,
15 Jul 2008
Dojo Grid Widget Updated. Data Integration and Editing Improvements.
Dojo developers will be pleased to read about the recent update to the Dojo grid control. Version 1.2 of the grid control focuses primarily on improving integration with Dojo data stores, improved gri ....... read more
Wed,
16 Jul 2008
Offline Access to Dojo Resources
Ever had a situation where youve desperately needed to get API information for your favorite toolkit only to find that the site is offline for some reason? The Dojo Toolbox aims to tackle this throug ....... read more
Tue,
08 Jul 2008
Shrinking frameworks; Dojo in 6k
Dojo is a framework that you can bend for your needs. You have very fine grained control on what you want in your base Dojo.js, how other components are loaded, and a final custom JavaScript file. Bra ....... read more
Thu,
03 Jul 2008
Working with Web Services with ease; Dojo.data and the WikipediaStore
Revin Guillen has posted about the Dojo Dojo.data API and how you can layer access to Web services in a very elegant way. His example shows building access to Wikipedia (demo):
Dojo recently received ....... read more
Fri,
27 Jun 2008
Badging Flickr with Dojo
Dylan Schiemann has a really nice case study post on implementing a Flickr badge with Dojo. What is particularly interesting is how he starts with a simple version: PLAIN TEXT HTML:
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Wed,
25 Jun 2008
Dojo gets AIM API Support from AOL
James Burke of AOL announced that AOL has released Dojo modules which wrap AOLs Web AIM API. This is a very big announcement as the Web AIM API lets developers incorporate core AIM functionality into ....... read more
Tue,
17 Jun 2008
Dojo Firebug Lite: Beyond console.log
Mike Wilcox has posted on Firebug Lite for Dojo and shows how he has taken it beyond console.log(). I was most excited about the DOM inspector:
Yes, I did say that a DOM inspector would imitate exist ....... read more
Tue,
03 Jun 2008
Nexaweb announces Dojo.E markup and runtime
Nexaweb has released a new product that build on Dojo, Dojo.E:
Dojo.E provides developers with the ability to use an XML based markup language to add in their Ajax behaviors. Markup whether ? XML, HT ....... read more
Wed,
04 Jun 2008
Dojo.workers: a showcase
Pete Higgins of Dojo has created a nice example, Dojo.workers, that puts together coverflow with Dijit and some Dojo.query animations. He even takes out his frustrations with IE 6 as he creates a bra ....... read more
Tue,
27 May 2008
Dojox.lang.aspect: More than just interception
Eugene Lazutkin has written a very thorough post on Dojox.lang.aspect a module that takes AOP seriously in JavaScript. As someone who has been to a couple AOSDs (the AOP software conference) and was e ....... read more
Mon,
19 May 2008
Dojo and Zend Framework Integratation Released
The Zend Framework aims to be a top notch framework for building next generation Web applications in PHP. Dojo has similar aims on the front-end side, so they decided to join forces to provide an inte ....... read more
Wed,
21 May 2008
Persevere: JSON Storage / Application Server
Kris Zyp of Sitepen has released Persevere:
An open source set of tools for persistence and distributed computing using intuitive standards-based JSON interfaces of HTTP REST, JSON-RPC, JSONPath, an ....... read more
Tue,
13 May 2008
Spring WebFlow 2.0; JavaScript Module Released
Spring Web Flow 2.0 has been released which includes a new Spring JavaScript module. Here is an example of an onclick wrapper calling an Ajax event: PLAIN TEXT HTML:
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Fri,
16 May 2008