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By Dylan Schiemann
The iPhone DevCamp begins Friday night. I won't be able to attend, though we'll be sending Jason Cline to the event to represent SitePen. We've been blogging quite a bit about the iPhone on the SitePen blog, and running a lot of tests to find out all of the various things that don't wo...
Oct. 7, 2007 11:00 AM EDT  Reads: 14,351  Replies: 1
By Dylan Schiemann
Apple's new application, Numbers, is a really nice refreshing blend of Excel and a general diagramming tool. It is surprisingly feature-rich, making actually somewhat more complex to use than a typical Apple app. It's interesting that the new iWork suite has the Leopard theme or skin. ...
Oct. 7, 2007 08:45 AM EDT  Reads: 24,337  Replies: 3
By Dylan Schiemann
After many months of working out the details, we?ve just announced the Dojo Grid! It took a significant amount of effort to make this happen, but we've managed to come together with a bunch of people in the community to bring an excellent grid widget to Dojo in time for the 1.0 release...
Sep. 17, 2007 04:45 PM EDT  Reads: 14,253  Replies: 1
By Dylan Schiemann
I usually skip BarCamp and other hackathon coding events because they consume a lot of time and I don't usually get as much accomplished as I do at my desk. That said, when a major new platform like the iPhone gets released, an event such as the iPhone Dev Camp seems like a great idea ...
Sep. 7, 2007 09:15 AM EDT  Reads: 21,983  Replies: 3
By Dylan Schiemann
In my annual informal review of social networks among our cousins and other people under 21 that are still fickle, Facebook has completely replaced MySpace in their lives. In fact, the only people I hear talking regularly about MySpace are a bit older and just learning about social net...
Aug. 16, 2007 12:30 PM EDT  Reads: 14,816  Replies: 1
By Dylan Schiemann
After writing a recent post about thinking outside the (browser) box, I started thinking about the rapid rate by which things are changing. A year ago, most web developers had to think about Firefox, Internet Explorer, Safari, Opera, and perhaps WAP for mobile devices and widget develo...
Jul. 22, 2007 04:30 PM EDT  Reads: 7,052  Replies: 1
By Dylan Schiemann
Successful AJAX-based applications provide a better end-user experience than traditional Web sites. Fast performance is absolutely essential to deliver on this potential. The large number of technologies and the additional complexity that AJAX adds to the mix creates significant headac...
Jul. 22, 2007 04:00 PM EDT  Reads: 8,599
By Dylan Schiemann
Ajax and comet are great techniques for getting data to and from the server, But they do little to address the requirements of sophisticated web application user interfaces.
Jun. 5, 2006 04:00 PM EDT  Reads: 7,342