Updates and Dojo 1.1
- Matthew Russell, author of ORA's forthcoming Dojo: The Definitive Guide has a new OnLAMP post up about Dojo's animation system which really helps to clarify what all those parameters are for and take advantage of composition of animations
- Pete Higgins has an excellent article up that covers dojo.hitch(), and in general the Dojo Cookies series over at dojocampus.org is rocking hard
- over on the SitePen blog, Kris Zyp covers the awesome JSONPath support that he and Dustin Machi landed for Dojo 1.1 and then follows it up by giving highlights of the new SMD format work which they've also been collaborating on. Exciting stuff.
- over at Pragmatic Programmers, there's a podcast with Rawld Gill, Craig Riecke, and myself wherein Rawld and Craig talk about Dojo and the great book they're writing (I'm contributing side-bars). The quality and depth of all the forthcoming Dojo books really has me in awe. I really hadn't thought we'd written that much code ;-)
- I'm talking tomorrow at the first Bay Area Visual Ajax Group (BAVAG) meeting. Between it and the upcoming SF JS meetup there seems to be plenty of opportunities to geek out JavaScript-style in my neighborhood. Huzzah.
- while at MIX a couple weeks back (more on that in another post), Joshua Allen from Channel 9 got Doug Crockford, Joseph Smarr, and me on the couch for a bit to talk about JavaScript and the future of the web. Joseph was (as always) intelligent, Doug was insightful, and I just looked a bit disoriented, babbling, and uncomfortable. Par for the course.
- Dojo is lucky to have been accepted into Google's SoC program again. It'll be under the capable leadership of Robert Coup, who already has a plan and is working ot make this year better for students and mentors alike. If you're a student and are thinking about participating, it would be best if you started playing with Dojo NOW. There will be a coding test for potential students this year.
- Dojo 1.1 is imminent...and it's damn good. More when we cut the release candidate.