A lot has been going on in Dojo-land, and we're finally ready to push out the release. I have tentatively named this the 'Sliced Bread' release, as over the last six months each new item has truly felt like "the best thing since sliced bread". This iteration of the Dojo Toolkit has a very large delta, countless levels of innovation, cleverness, polish, and usefulness, as well as several internal changes regarding the overall project.

If you haven't already noticed, we're having some issues with http://api.dojotoolkit.org - we're working to correct the issue as we speak, but is proving to be difficult. We have taken the API site offline for the meantime, and apologize for any inconvenience this may be causing you.

If you are able to run AIR, the 1.1.1 docs are available in off-line format via the SitePen Dojo Toolbox application. You can use this if you need immediate API docs while we work to fix this issue.

http://sitepen.com/labs/toolbox

Earlier this month, we released beta1 of the much anticipated Dojo Toolkit 1.2 ... We released 1.1 in March of this year and the critical-fix branch 1.1.1 in May, making the 1.2 release the longest interval between releases to date. The wait was/is worth it, the visual polish in Dijit layout alone will please most users.

Oh, but it isn't truly released yet - one more round of testing to go! Today, we cut the first candidate for Dojo 1.2:

http://download.dojotoolkit.org/release-1.2.0rc1/

We need you!

This morning I had the pleasure of running our `build_release` script for the first time, and am proud to announce the availability of the first cut of the much-anticipated 1.2.0 release. Secretly, I tried to do it on a holiday (yesterday), but had to nurse the script a little due to internal ops changes regarding svn locations.

So without further ado, I give you:

Dojo 1.2.0 beta1

Today, Alex Russell closed the voting on the unanimous selection of a new Dojo Project Lead: me. It is with great pleasure that I write this brief note announcing the change, and look forward to serving the Dojo Toolkit and it's developers, users, and contributors. Both Alex and I have both posted some notes about the change. Thanks to everyone for their vote of confidence, and to Alex, who has dutifully served in this position for the past four years.

UPDATE:

The details for the evening are:

Wed, July 23rd --
Chesterfield / 1101 SE Burnside
6:30pm

A map is available here.

(just a few blocks (+/-10?) directly south of the Lloyd Center Max station)

or in a more dojo'y way:

dojo.mixin(dojo,{
dinner: function(){
return {
date:"2008-07-23",

UPDATE:

The details for the evening are:

Wed, July 23rd --
Chesterfield / 1101 SE Burnside
6:30pm

A map is available here.

(just a few blocks (+/-10?) directly south of the Lloyd Center Max station)

or in a more dojo'y way:

dojo.mixin(dojo,{
dinner: function(){
return {
date:"2008-07-23",

Today SitePen, Inc. announced the release of a co-sponsored "demo" utilizing Adobe's AIR runtime and The Dojo Toolkit affectionately named "The Dojo Toolbox". Don't let the term "demo" fool you though, this thing is a fully functioning application providing a pluggable API built around the question "what can be done offline to better Dojo?" ...

There's been a lot going on in Dojo-Land recently, though our blog is no indication of that fact. Here's a meta-update encompassing all that I can recall:

Today marks a very exciting milestone for two great Open Source Products: The Zend Framework and The Dojo Toolkit. Zend aims to provide out-of-the box Ajax functionality capable of communicating directly with the Framework, and Dojo aims to provide the solution.