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Interview on Dojo on Ajax, Comet, Bayeux, RIAs and the Dojo Toolbox
The Dojo Toolkit is a modular open source JavaScript library, designed to ease the rapid development of JavaScript or Ajax-based applications and web sites. InfoQ had a Q&A with Dylan Schiemann, CEO of SitePen and co-creator of the Dojo Toolkit, about AJAX, Comet, Bayeux, RIAs and the newly released Dojo Toolbox.
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IE 6 On the Way Out?
It seems that the Dojo toolkit will continue supporting IE 6 for a long time to come as Dylan Schiemann, CEO of SitePen and co-creator of Dojo tells us: When first released, Internet Explorer 4.5, 5.5, and 6 radically improved the lives of web developers with cutting edge features, but it has been 7 years [...]
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SitePen Announces the Dojo Toolbox
Palo Alto, CA - July 8, 2008 - SitePen Inc. today announced the launch of the Dojo Toolbox, a productivity application to help web and Ajax developers with the Dojo Toolkit.
Created by SitePen using the Dojo Toolkit and Adobe® AIR™, the Dojo Toolbox is available for download immediately. The 1.0 version of the Dojo [...]
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SDK showdown: iPhone vs. Android
Jason Cline, a senior software engineer at Web application developer SitePen, says that the broad differences between the iPhone and Android SDKs are related to trade-offs between greater freedom and greater accessibility. Thus, for instance, while Apple may control which applications it will allow onto the iPhone, it compensates by having an AppStore that makes [...]
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SitePen: Passing the Open-Source Torch
SAN FRANCISCO - When companies such as Adobe, AOL, Eye-Fi, JPMorgan Chase, Sun Telelogic and even Google want a certain something in their Web applications, they go to SitePen, a Web application development shop that does a little support, training and consulting as well.
The reason these companies come to SitePen? The company has an all-star [...]
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Python Fans Take Aim at the Enterprise
There are some significant challenges facing Python, not the least of which are the large numbers of developers currently using Java and PHP.
Dangoor who is also a Product Manager at Web application developer SitePen, commented that for Java programmers, the barrier is likely that Python is dynamically typed whereas Java is statically typed.
“I am firmly [...]
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Commercial Support Now Available from the Co-Creators and Contributors of the Dojo Toolkit, DWR, and Cometd
Palo Alto, CA - March 13, 2008. SitePen is responding to the growing demand for commercial web application assistance by launching a support service for the Dojo Toolkit, Cometd, DWR, and related web technologies. SitePen Support is available immediately to provide development teams with the fast answers needed to build great web applications under short [...]
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SitePen Announces Updates to the Dojo Toolkit to Enable Adobe AIR Compatibility
Palo Alto, CA - February 25, 2008 - SitePen Inc. today announced updates to the Dojo Toolkit that allow Ajax developers to easily deploy web applications created with the Dojo Toolkit on Adobe® AIR™. Adobe collaborated with SitePen to revise the Dojo Toolkit and enable compatibility with Adobe® AIR™.
“The Dojo Toolkit is a popular and [...]
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SitePen Establishes UK Operations - Joe Walker joins SitePen, DWR joins the Dojo Foundation
Palo Alto, CA - SitePen, Inc., a leading provider of Ajax and Comet web application services, today announced the opening of SitePen Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of SitePen, Inc. SitePen also announced that Joe Walker, creator of Direct Web Remoting (DWR), has signed on as director of support and development for the newly-established [...]
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Dojo Foundation announces Dojo Toolkit 1.0
PALO ALTO, November 5, 2007: The Dojo Foundation is proud to announce version 1.0 of Dojo, an Open Source JavaScript toolkit for Ajax development.
Dojo provides easy-to-use, high-quality UI components and JavaScript infrastructure critical for building responsive web applications without the need for proprietary plugins or single-vendor solutions. Only 25K in size, the base of Dojo [...]
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