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Dojo: Using the Dojo JavaScript Library to Build Ajax Applications

James Harmon’s “Dojo: Using the Dojo JavaScript Library to Build Ajax Applications” stands out among the crowd as the easiest introduction to the toolkit. While the O’Reilly and Pragmatic books provide serious firepower for application developers, James’ book gives a solid introduction which helps web developers who are new the whole “Ajax” thing jump in and start taking full advantage of the features Dojo has to offer. Large chunks of Dojo have been designed with non-programmers in mind, from the declarative markup syntax to the template system, and James’ book helps really showcase how simple it is to start building rich, compelling UI’s with Dojo.

Date added: September 7th, 2008 | Author: dante

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Mastering Dojo

Pragmatic’s “Mastering Dojo” is focused heavily on helping you not only learn what’s valuable about the toolkit and how to use it, but by digging deep into the guts and showing you why the pieces are put together the way they are. The real art of building really responsive JavaScript driven UI’s is about making good tradeoffs, and this book really helps you understand what Dojo provides you with in ways that let you trade things off for the benefit of the user experience.

Date added: September 7th, 2008 | Author: nonken

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dojo.declare secrets

A very short tuesday morning cookie for the ones who have been starving

When using dojo.declare to build your own fancy widget there is one thing (besides others) you should keep in mind:
Arrays and objects as member variables are stored as references and not copies.
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Date added: September 2nd, 2008 | Author: nonken

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dojo.cast() - the Dojo podcast - episode 5

 

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Welcome to the fifth episode of the Dojo.cast(), this episode with some exciting updates and news about and around Dojo:

News items include:

• Dojo project lead
• SitePen toolbox
• 1.2 News
• Dojango
• uxebu
• Dojo documentation - beta!
• New widgets
• Summer of code - great effect work
• Dojo Developer Day, Boston

btw… the talk in the beginning about us being on a holiday - this was us talking about our dreams and wishes, maybe one day we actually will publish a podcast - live from the beach

enjoy.

Date added: August 11th, 2008 | Author: nonken

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DojoML - The best thing since sliced bread!

Have you ever found a widget that does almost *everything* you need, yet you still manage to find some small thing that needs to be done differently? Ever cringe at the thought of having to extend a widget to add 5 or 10 lines of code to it? In the past, thats what you had to do… well unless you were really gung-ho and wanted to write your own from scratch.
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Date added: August 9th, 2008 | Author: Karl Tiedt