I attended the JavaOne show this week, after a 4 year gap. What a difference - who knew Java could be so boring? On the other hand, this is what it feels like to go to a show for a technology that has lost half of its market share in the last 4 years (at least when measured by O’Reilly book sales - not a particularly reliable source but better than no source at all). If you don’t like that More»

Labels: Dojo, GWT, Java, JavaFX, JavaOne

The next Visual Ajax User Group webinar and meeting will be next Thursday, April 17 at 12 PST. The speakers will be Scott Miles and Steve Orvell. Scott is the module owner for the Dojo Grid and Steve is a core contributor for the Dojo Grid. They will be talking about “Ajax Grids - Taming and Tooling The Widget Beast.”
To attend the webinar, send an email to rsvp@visualajax.org
Our last meeting was a lively discussion led by Alex Russell More»

Labels: Dojo, Visual Ajax, wavemaker

The first Visual Ajax User Group webinar will be next Thursday, March 20 at 12 PST. The speaker will be Alex Russell, co-author of the Dojo toolkit. He will be talking about “The Zen of Web 2.0 - How to Make Web App Development Effortless.”
To sign up, send an email to rsvp@visualajax.org
The meeting will be at the offices of WaveMaker Software, 301 Howard Street, 22nd Floor, but space is limited and we are nearing capacity. There is plenty More»

Labels: ajax, Dojo, Visual Ajax

I know I’m dating myself, but Bill Cosby had a pretty funny routine where a PE Teacher explains that the purpose of air is to pump up basketballs and volleyballs.
Now Adobe has launched their Air product (with a matching Kevin Lynch NY Times article, and GigaOm fan dance) to allow platform to allow browser apps to escape from their little Firefox and IE prisons and flit gaily across the desktop like “real” apps.
Now what exactly are the More»

Labels: Adobe, Air, ajax, Dojo, RIA, Visual Ajax

Alex Russell, one of the co-creators of Dojo, will be presenting to the Bay Area Visual Ajax Group on Thursday, March 20 from 12-1:30. The Visual Ajax User Group blog is here.
Alex (his blog is here) will be talking about the Zen of Dojo - how to make Ajax development effortless for beginner and expert alike using the Dojo toolkit. He will also discuss how he sees Ajax and Dojo tooling evolving.
The meeting will be at WaveMaker, 301 Howard More»

Labels: Dojo, Visual Ajax

The grandfather of Ajax toolkits, Dojo, just celebrated its 1.0 release. The announcement was covered by the creators of Dojo on the Sitepen blog, as well as on the Ajaxian website. With over 58 different Ajax and Rich Internet Application frameworks to choose from today, the Ajax community has been too fragmented to get serious adoption at the enterprise level.
Dojo 1.0 may not be the ultimate winner of the Ajax wars, but it sure sets a high bar for any More»

Labels: ajax, Dojo