Category Archives: jot

Getting Past “Wiki”

July 27, 2006 – 3:17 am

While i’ve been in Portland for OSCON, the world of wikis has exploded in a wash of product announcements from Jot, SocialText and MindTouch. Today I had a chance to meet the MindTouch folks on the exhibit floor of the convention, and when I saw their UI I realized right away that they grok what [...]

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…since sliced bread

May 24, 2006 – 10:53 pm

Wikis, as a rule, suck. I say this as someone who spent the last year and a half working at what is generally considered to be a “wiki company“. I hated wikis before I went to Jot, and now having seen the strange cult of wiki even closer (Jot’s competition), I haven’t been dissuaded from [...]

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Tracker Beta!

January 11, 2006 – 2:22 am

My work on Dojo isn’t solely the product of a gigantic sleep deficit. Were it not for the generous support of JotSpot, the application platform cleverly disguised as a wiki, I think Dojo might not be a reality today. Jot’s support has been massive and prolonged, and over the past year we’ve built multiple features [...]

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dojo, impending!

August 24, 2005 – 11:45 am

This week, Dojo will be releasing our first full public version, 0.1. It’s not “fully baked” in a lot of ways, many things will change as we go into 0.2, and we already have a ton of things slated for past that, but 0.1 will be the best DHTML toolkit I’ve ever helped to build. [...]

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JS everywhere

July 8, 2005 – 11:28 am

I often refer to JavaScript as “the trojan horse of languages”. You think you’re getting a browser or another type of programming tool (Java, .NET, Windows), but what you”re unwittingly getting is *also* a JavaScript interpreter. The practical upshot of this is that JavaScript is probably the world’s most widely deployed scripting language. Ever. I [...]

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