Dylan Schiemann

Dylan Schiemann's Blog 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 f... (more)
Dylan Schiemann's Blog 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 iW... (more)
Dylan Schiemann's Blog 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 ... (more)
Dylan Schiemann's Blog 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 iPhon... (more)
Dylan Schiemann's Blog 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 j... (more)
Dylan Schiemann's Blog 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 mob... (more)
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 ... (more)
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. Cross-component interactions, synchronization, state management and other requirements for such applicatio... (more)
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