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Porting Dojo Methods to Flash – Part 1 of 3
Porting Dojo Methods to Flash – Part 1 of 3

There’s been some breaking news from Adobe, announcing their Open Screen project. As of today, they are opening the licensing of the Flash Player, FLV/F4V video, publishing the AMF protocol and device APIs for the player, and more.

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The Best Things in Life are Free
The Best Things in Life are Free

At SitePen, we’re dedicated to creating excellent user experiences and writing clean, beautiful code. Because of this, we’ve earned a reputation as being advocates, advisers and teachers to our friends, colleagues, and clients.

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SDK showdown: iPhone vs. Android
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 distributing and selling the applications a relative snap, says Cline.

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Unit Testing Custom Code with the Dojo Objective Harness
Unit Testing Custom Code with the Dojo Objective Harness

Notice: We now recommend the DOH replacement, Intern. Read our posts about Intern for more information.

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SitePen: Passing the Open-Source Torch
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 team of experts in AJAX (Asynchronous JavaScript and XML), DHTML and Web 2.0 technologies.

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I’m Not Flash
I’m Not Flash

Much like a magpie, I find myself oddly infatuated with shiny things. When a UI component somewhere just screams elegance, I find myself compelled to use it.

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Balancing Security and Convenience
Balancing Security and Convenience

At SitePen, we value amazing user experiences. Once in a while, you see an elegant solution to a problem that has annoyed users for years.

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Python Fans Take Aim at the Enterprise
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.

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Dojo 1.1 in the News
Dojo 1.1 in the News

Since Dojo 1.1 was released a week ago, several outlets have published articles: Dojo 1.1 Refines Ajax Development – Features SitePen’s Peter Higgins and Alex Russell with their thoughts on Dojo 1.1, and a comprehensive summary of what’s new with the 1.1 release Dojo Stabilizes Open Source Ajax Toolkit – Mentions Dojo backing from IBM, Sun, AOL and Nexaweb, and gives a summary of IBM and Nexaweb’s opinions of Dojo 1.1 Dojo Encourages Ajax Innovation – The facts aren’t particularly solid in this one, but it’s still nice to see Dojo get mentioned Adobe AIR for Linux – Mentions Dojo working on AIR What’s new with Google Gears – Includes a short section about Dojo Storage and the Gears Dojo data provider. .

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