Category Archives: dojo

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 [...]

Dojo’s Query System: No, Really, It’s That Fast

As outlined by JQuery lead John Resig in this post, it’s hard not to notice how much Dojo’s query engine stomps on the the competition on current browsers. Dojo will load even quicker when we’re able to remove the XPath branch in the query engine which is currently only being kept on life support for [...]

Transition

Two days ago I dusted off the rarely-used voting procedure for Dojo Foundation projects in order to kick off a transition that I’m very excited about: as of this afternoon, the committers of the Dojo project have elected Peter Higgins the new Project Lead for the toolkit project. I’ve had the pleasure of working with [...]

OSCON ’08

I’m leaving tomorrow for my yearly trek to Portland for OSCON. If you’re going, don’t hesitate to drop me a line if you want to catch up or RSVP for the Dojo meetup/dinner on Wed evening. Speaking as a member of the OSCON program committee, I’m very happy about the quality of the talks in [...]

Dojo Developer Day Boston, Sept. 28-29

As Dylan just posted over on the official Dojo blog, we’re having our next bi-annual Dojo Developer Day event in Boston just prior to the Ajax Experience conference. Like previous DDD events, the first day will be somewhat contributor-oriented, and many decisions about the direction of the project are likely to get made there. The [...]