Dev.Opera recently asked us (SitePen) to write an article about Dojo: Introducing the Dojo Toolkit. The article provides an in-depth look at Dojo Core.
Opera is also making a small cash contribution to the Dojo Foundation in recognition of our efforts for writing a great article for their developer community.
As a project that is completely assisted and sponsored by the community, the Dojo Toolkit and Dojo Foundation need your help!
I recently added text on the Dojo Foundation site about getting involved and contributing, so I won't repeat that information here. Instead, I will focus on the areas where we (the Dojo Toolkit) need the most assistance:
We're conducting a public Dojo Workshop in January. This twofour-day event will be in Phoenix online and will teach you all about Dojo. Full details are available at http://www.sitepen.com/blog/2008/11/19/affordable-dojo-workshop-open-to-... .
One of the more widely requested features we receive is for a full-fledged Dojo Calendar widget (think a lightweight version of iCal or Google Calendar rather than the more date picker like calendar we have in dojox.widget.Calendar).
I was recently contacted by Matt Simpson of Queens University in Canada, and after discussions, we decided that we'd see if we can get a calendar project rolling by starting something in dojoc, and then moving it to DojoX once it starts to evolve.
We've announced a new project, the Dojo Extensions for Adobe AIR. This project makes it easier to use Dojo for higher level desktop application features within AIR.
Dojo rarely wins popularity polls, and I've often complained about the lack of science behind polls. The reasons can be explained for a variety of reasons, but with the latest results from the O'Reilly InsideRIA poll, Which AJAX framework do you currently prefer?, "with almost 50% of the vote, Dojo is the clear winner."
I'm pleased to announce the launch of the Dojo Foundation web site. I first demonstrated the site at Dojo Developer Day V in Boston a few weeks ago, and we're pleased to have something worthy of representing the foundation.
It would not have been possible without the hard work and assistance of Torrey Rice, Chris Anderson, Tobias Klipstein, and Dustin Machi. The Dojo Foundation site is minimalistic by design, and is powered by Dojango, making it one of the first sites to use this toolkit for making Dojo and Django integration easy!
Right on the heels of the Dojo 1.2 release, Aptana added support for Dojo 1.2. Aptana has been working closely together with Dojo and SitePen to make support for new Dojo releases extremely timely.
The Ajax Experience is kicking off in less than a week.
Everyone that has responded to the invitation for DDD Boston should receive an email in the next day or two with complete details for the event, dinners, etc.
I have also created a pdf, the Dojo-annotated Ajax Experience schedule, for anyone that is interested in knowing which talks are most likely to be interesting to Dojo developers.
Leading up to the Ajax Experience, there is an
I recently had a chance to sit down with Jayant Sai of ESRI to discuss their new Dojo-based GIS JavaScript API.
DS: Let's start at the beginning. What is ESRI?
