Category Archives: community

OSCON dojo.beer() Tonight!

Sorry for the late notice, but the inimitable Matthew Russell has organized another dojo.beer() event for 7pm tonight (Wed, July 22nd) at O’Flaherty’s pub in San Jose, near the convention center. Should be a great time, so if you’re in the area, hopefully we’ll see you there!

Dojo 1.3 Is Out!

Dojo 1.3 is here! (download site) If you’re already using Dojo, this should be a no-brainer upgrade. It’s out-and-out better. As a quick example, dojo.create(“tagname”, { /*properties*/ }) is now the preferred way to build DOM nodes quickly. Its simple API will be natural to anyone who has used dojo.attr(). Even better, Pete’s exciting PlugD [...]

Census 2: More Than Just A Pretty Graph

Numbers without context are lies waiting to be repeated.

Joining Google

Starting next month, I’ll be a Googler. To my great surprise, I’ve been at SitePen two and a half years. It has been nothing short of wonderful which may explain why it doesn’t feel like it has been that long. When I look back at what we’ve accomplished it’s also surprising that we’ve been able [...]

ZendCon Notes

I gave a talk on Dojo Wednesday at ZendCon, and when I walked into the room for the talk, there was some disorder as the conference center staff were taking out the tables to fit more chairs in. Even with the extra space, the room was totally packed, thanks in large part to the amazing [...]