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Dojo Tutorial: Working with Dates
Dojo Tutorial: Working with Dates

Two weeks out from DojoConf 2011! Ready for the next Dojo Tutorial? Dates can be awkward to work with in JavaScript. This tutorial walks through the use of dojo.date—Dojo’s answer to the need for a standard library for date math, comparisons, parsing and formatting.

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Dojo Tutorial: Prototyping with dijit.Declaration
Dojo Tutorial: Prototyping with dijit.Declaration

Wow! We’re just 15 days out from DojoConf 2011 and our new dojo tutorial everyday series is going strong with our latest edition… In this tutorial, you’ll learn about the special dijit.Declaration widget, which was designed to allow you to quickly prototype custom widgets—all using declarative syntax.

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Dojo Tutorial: Getting Jiggy with JSONP
Dojo Tutorial: Getting Jiggy with JSONP

You didn’t think that with just 18 days left until DojoConf 2011 we would leave you hanging and not post another tutorial in our new dojo tutorial everyday series did you? I thought not! Here’s today’s tutorial! JSON with Padding (JSONP) has become a common technique for accessing cross-domain resources from the browser. In this tutorial you learn what JSONP is and how you can use it to retrieve data from cross-domain sources.

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Dojo Tutorial: Connecting a Store to a Tree
Dojo Tutorial: Connecting a Store to a Tree

Only 23 days left until DojoConf 2011 and our new dojo tutorial everyday marathon is going strong. Here’s todays tutorial! The Dojo Tree component is a powerful tool for visual presentation of hierarchical data.

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Dojo Tutorial: Using Custom Modules with a CDN
Dojo Tutorial: Using Custom Modules with a CDN

With just 24 days left until DojoConf 2011 our new dojo tutorial everyday marathon continues! There are a number of benefits to loading Dojo from a CDN, but using it and custom modules can be a little confusing at first. This tutorial will demonstrate how easily that can be done.

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Dojo Tutorial: Using Dojo Data
Dojo Tutorial: Using Dojo Data

We’re 28 days away and as promised we’re releasing a tutorial everyday until DojoConf 2011! Here’s today’s tutorial! Dojo Data is the legacy data interface used to abstract data consumers (like widgets) from the concerns of data providers. While the new object store interface has superseded the dojo.data interface, there are a number of existing data stores that implement this API and is used by quite a few existing widgets.

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Contributing Back to the Dojo Toolkit
Contributing Back to the Dojo Toolkit

As a part of our Free Dojo Support initiative, we received the following question from Rob about contributing back to the Dojo Toolkit: I have some questions around contributing back to the Dojo Toolkit project. We have used dojo heavily in the past 6 months, but haven’t yet really needed to join the community forums or discussions, instead finding all the answers we need online or by delving into the code.

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A New Tutorial Everyday until DojoConf!
A New Tutorial Everyday until DojoConf!

Anxiously crossing off the days on your calendar until DojoConf 2011? We are too! We’re so excited to be sponsoring and speaking at DojoConf that we can hardly sleep… so instead of sleeping we’re writing Dojo tutorials and releasing a new one every day until DojoConf (Sept. 16, 2011), now you can stay up late hacking on Dojo just like us! Form Management with dojox.form.Manager “While there are elements within Dojo to allow for simple form validation, occasionally you may want a more powerful solution.

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Code Design and Approach for the Next Grid
Code Design and Approach for the Next Grid

Viewing a collection of data in tabular or list form is one of the central components of many applications. We are working on a new design to fulfill the need for a grid to quickly navigate sets of data with familiar controls for productive user interaction in the new world of mobile, lightweight applications.

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