Dave Johnson

March 29th, 2007

This one almost never saw the light of day but it has been resurrected. Not even really sure what is on it aside from Ryan Stewart

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March 26th, 2007

We have made up some short cheat sheets for the Complete UI components as well as the Nitobi Ajax Toolkit which comes free with Complete UI. You can check them out here and feel free to send in any feedback!

Posted in AJAX, JavaScript, Components, Nitobi | 1 Comment »

March 20th, 2007

Ok, I was a bit quick on the draw there about chapter 8 (thanks for the comments about the broken link!) but now the link for the Enterprise Ajax chapter 8 sample is live! Get it while it’s hot.

Btw Andre is in New York this week at Ajax World East and the OpenAjax meetings so if you are also in town be sure to ping him!

Posted in AJAX, Nitobi, Conference, enterpriseajax | 1 Comment »

March 19th, 2007

It appears that I have been accepted to give a talk at JavaOne this year - w00t.

The title of the presentation is “Practical Parallels: From Development on the Java Platform to Development with the JavaScript Programming Language”. So essentially I will be talking about all the tools of the JavaScript trade used for testing, debugging, deployment, and documentation.

I will be talking at 6:45 on the Wednesday night (May 9 I think) and will certainly be around for some beers afterwards

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March 15th, 2007

So I have finally gotten around to posting a sample chapter from the upcoming Enterprise Ajax tome written by yours truly along with Alexei and Andre. If you are so inclined you can even pre-order from Amazon to the right ->

The available chapters are number 3 - currently named Aajx in the Browser - and number 8 - currently named Ajax Usability. Chapter 3 is an overview of Ajax and how it relates to many of the traditional design patterns enterprise developers should be familiar with while chapter 8 covers usability issues and solutions. Without further ado, here is chapter 3 and here is chapter 8.

Please post any comments / questions if there is anything that needs revising or is missing.

Posted in Web2.0, AJAX, Nitobi, enterpriseajax | 4 Comments »

March 11th, 2007

It looks like I will be in Paris to give a presentation at XTech 2007 (May 15-18).

I will be talking about declarative approaches to Ajax and looking at some of the important cross browser issues that may be encountered. I will also give a quick high level overview of some of the important declarative languages that we can use for guidance and inspiration.

Ping me if you will be in Paris during that time - I will also be spending a little time in London around then as well.

Posted in Web2.0, AJAX, Declarative Programming, Nitobi, Conference, xtech | 1 Comment »

March 3rd, 2007

Just one or two more days now … we were shooting for Feb 28 but we decided to show a little more love to the docs to help get people up and running and quickly.

It should be cool though! What is even cooler are the new components we will be releasing in the next month or so - so stay tuned

Posted in Uncategorized, AJAX, Components, Nitobi | 1 Comment »

February 17th, 2007

Alright, we were supposed to have everything together and ready for full launch last Thursday but we came across a few difficult IE7 problems that has cause us to push back release by about 2 weeks.

However, we did release the beta 1 last night. There are still a few little bugs with the packaging and docs but for the most part the components are looking sweet! We got all the good stuff like:

• Tree
• Tab
• Fisheye Menu
• Callout
• Ajax Toolkit
• Grid
• Combo

More info here.

All components are pretty much 100% client side with the exception of small server side components (ASP, CFM, PHP, JAVA, ASP.NET) that serve up the data. We are going to try and pack in one or two more features before release so speak up and let us know what you would like to see!

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January 15th, 2007

It has been a very long weekend but I think we will manage to get something out the door later today! It will likely include fairly basic documentation, as well as a single sample for the Fisheye menu, Tree, TabStrip and the Framework, and of course the code itself. We didn’t quite manage to get the docs all dialed (that one was my fault) but there are a few things that I am pretty excited about.

• The first thing is that we finally have a cross platform installer - w00t!
• The second thing is that the Framework is pretty awesome - and by awesome I mean, like, totally sweet. There should be at least one sample with some nice stuff particularly to do with making your own widgets using a declarative approach and all the goodness that comes along with that.
• Finally, I am stoked on the fact that for the enterprise customers we will be providing much better code management tools - i.e. build, compression, deployment type stuff.

I will be getting some of the exclusive alpha stuff up on the blog over the coming week, hopefully even some screencasts or video.

I know that some of these things have been a while coming but everyone is working extra hard to get this stuff out there and we are hoping to see a good discussion going on over on the alpha release mailing list!

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November 28th, 2006

After a bit of a hiatus we finally got back to recording some podcast action. We talked about frew things like the upcoming Nitobi rich UI AJAX suite and much more!

I also may have gone on a rant about something or other …

Posted in Web, AJAX, JavaScript, Podcast, Nitobi, RIA | 1 Comment »