Dojo Grid and Open Source Community Contribution

Monday, September 17th, 2007

My company, Nexaweb, together with SitePen, Mozilla Foundation, Redfin, etc, joined force in making an important contribution to the open source community. See SitePen, Mozilla Foundation, Nexaweb Technologies, Redfin, & SnapLogic Announce Open Source Contribution of TurboAjax Group’s High-Performance Grid Widget to Dojo Foundation. This is interesting not only because it bridges a ...

Dojo 0.9 Released

Tuesday, August 21st, 2007

Congratulations to the Dojo team in getting 0.9 out! It is something that I have been looking for. Alex Russell showed me some significant improvements comparing to Dojo 0.4 a while ago (much smaller footprint, 10X performance improvement, etc). Now these guys have delivered it! See the release note for ...

Dojo Footprint and Ajax Performance Recommendation

Wednesday, April 4th, 2007

Introduction Ajax is flying high and Ajax toolkits are certainly of big help. However, I do hear from people in the community complain about the size of various Ajax toolkits. A lot of Ajax toolkits require hundreds of kilobytes of download, sometime even over megabytes. Dylan Schiemann from Dojo ...

Dojo Custom Widget Tutorial

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007

In my effort to evaluate Dojo performance, I am going to build a custom Dojo widget and create my own build profile so that only the absolutely required files for my application are packaged into the initial download. However, considering the real world best practice, I would create my own ...