Category Archives: dhtml

delegate(), delegate(), delegate()

October 10, 2008 – 4:50 pm

My MBP batteries keep dying after about a year (each). I usually have 2 that I tote around with me, and each tends to be good for 1.5-2hrs of actual work. This means that I tend not to be able to work through a cross-country flight, and particularly not if I need a VM for [...]

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ZendCon Notes

September 19, 2008 – 11:35 am

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 [...]

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The Importance Of Chrome

September 1, 2008 – 4:28 pm

The rumors seem to have been true…the gBrowser is real. And it looks like it will simply be awesome. To my friends who have been toiling on it in deep secrecy for so very long, congratulations. Yes, yes, more to do, blah blah…screw that. You shipped! Huzzah! So what does Chrome mean for those of [...]

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

August 21, 2008 – 4:51 pm

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 [...]

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Chandler 1.0!

August 14, 2008 – 10:59 am

Somehow I missed this last week, but OSAF’s Chandler super-PIM just went 1.0. It’s been a long time in coming, and the result isn’t what I had at all expected. Instead of being an “email client++”, Chandler 1.0 is a calendar and task management tool that happens to be super-savvy about talking to your existing [...]

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