The Dojo Toolkit is an open source JavaScript Library that allows users to develop JavaScript/Ajax-based applications and websites.
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Category: Dojo
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. Brad Neuberg showed a project, SearchTools, that added local search via Gears, and had a custom Dojo that wasn’t Read the rest…
Friday, June 27th, 2008
Category: Dojo
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 a new data store that demonstrates exactly what we want: dojox.data.WikipediaStore. It does just what it sounds like, turning Wikipedia into Read the rest…
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008
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: < View plain text > HTML <head> … <link rel="stylesheet" href="/dojo/dojox/image/resources/image.css" /> <style type="text/css"> img.thing { width:50px; height:50px; } </style> … </head> <body> … <div Read the rest…
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008
Category: Dojo
James Burke of AOL announced that AOL has released Dojo modules which wrap AOL’s Web AIM API. This is a very big announcement as the Web AIM API lets developers incorporate core AIM functionality into any web page including the ability to sign on, send and receive IMs, and obtain a user’s Buddy List. My Read the rest…
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
Category: Dojo
The team at Dojo have been really working hard to improve their documentation and put more information in the hands of Dojo developers. Between DojoCampus.org and the SitePen blog, they’ve really come a long way to providing solid education material for the Dojo community. Normally, the Ajaxian Featured Tutorial consists of one really good educational Read the rest…
Wednesday, June 4th, 2008
Category: Dojo, JavaScript
, Library
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, HTML or CSS — simplifies development by allow developers to convey in simple text format what they would otherwise need to Read the rest…
Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
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 existing tools. However, I implemented this for a colleague who was struggling with a particularly nasty IE 6.0 bug Read the rest…
Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
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 branch that looks like this ;) var newp = function(){ // IE6 branch of this demo window.location.href = “http://” + (confirm(“Is it Read the rest…
Wednesday, May 21st, 2008
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 integration layer. If you like the combination you will have a better, tighter, way to build your applications. What we Read the rest…
Monday, May 19th, 2008
Category: Dojo, JavaScript
, Library
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 excited to see AOP on the scene, it is good to see someone who gets it working on the JavaScript side. Of Read the rest…
Friday, May 16th, 2008
Category: Dojo, Java
, JavaScript
, Library
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: < View plain text > HTML <a id="prevResultsLink" href="search?searchString=${searchCriteria.searchString}&page=${searchCriteria.page – 1}">Previous Results</a> <script type="text/javascript"> Spring.addDecoration(new Spring.AjaxEventDecoration({ elementId: "prevResultsLink", event: Read the rest…
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008
Category: Dojo, JSON
, Showcase
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, and HTTP Channels. The core of the Persevere project is the Persevere Server. The Persevere server includes a Persevere JavaScript client, but the standards-based interface is intended Read the rest…
Friday, May 9th, 2008
Craig Riecke, Rawld Gill, and Alex Russell, along with the Pragmatic Programmers themselves have been kind enough to give the Ajaxian community some exclusive extracts from the Mastering Dojo beta book. What do we have on the docket? First, we have details on the Dojo DOM Apis. Specifically, the author takes us through a challenge Read the rest…
Thursday, May 8th, 2008
Category: Dojo, Interview
, JavaScript
Last, but never least, is Alex Russell of the Dojo Toolkit and SitePen. In Alex’s five minutes of video footage for our JavaOne talk, he explained how Dojo enables you to built fantastic, responsive applications for everyone. The everyone piece revolves around accessibility too, which is core to Dojo thanks to work from Becky Gibson Read the rest…
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
Mike Wilcox has started a nice series of posts on porting Dojo methods to Flash as a homage for Open Screen (aside: I applaud Adobe’s intentions, but need to see a non-assert of their IP before I can do anything with it.) In part one of the series Mike ports dojo.hitch to ActionScript: < View Read the rest…
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
Sam Foster has written up an example of using Dojo to create directory listings with keyboard shortcuts. You can now tab over to the box on the top right, and filter your selections: This tutorial shows you how to upgrade those plain vanilla pages to make getting around a little faster and along the way Read the rest…
In Episode 25, we chat about IE 8, standards, Acid3, server side JavaScript, and more.
