I recently had a chance to sit down with Jayant Sai of ESRI to discuss their new Dojo-based GIS JavaScript API.

DS: Let's start at the beginning. What is ESRI?

It's time for the next Dojo Developer Day, this time in Boston at the Ajax Experience.

Developer/Contributor Day
Sunday, September 28, 10-5
IBM (Cambridge)

Today SitePen, Inc. announced the release of a co-sponsored "demo" utilizing Adobe's AIR runtime and The Dojo Toolkit affectionately named "The Dojo Toolbox". Don't let the term "demo" fool you though, this thing is a fully functioning application providing a pluggable API built around the question "what can be done offline to better Dojo?" ...

Today marks a very exciting milestone for two great Open Source Products: The Zend Framework and The Dojo Toolkit. Zend aims to provide out-of-the box Ajax functionality capable of communicating directly with the Framework, and Dojo aims to provide the solution.

The animation framework in Dojo is very flexible, but because of that flexibility, using it is not a trivial task for the common web programmer. The animation system works well for the JavaScript-savvy, but what if a Dojo beginner wants to add a simple animated effect to an element on the page? What if he wants to make that animation toggle?

At SitePen, we've just added a new Dojo QuickStart Guide. This guide was developed by the SitePen support team.

The moment has arrived. I've been anticipating this since the first new fixes to trunk were made, shortly after the 1.0 release. I am proud -- no, elated -- to announce what marks another solid run of around-the-clock development: The Dojo Toolkit version 1.1

The SVN repository is in progress of migration to a new host.

Google is again running the Summer of Code programme in 2008, and Dojo is gearing up to participate. Over the past three years, Google has spent millions of dollars to pay over 1500 talented individuals to work on open source software projects. At Dojo we have some big goals for this year, and right now we're starting to look for students, mentors, and project ideas.

Just after Wolfram landed his new Rating widget in DojoX, I read about Tobi's extension to this widget that uses dojo.gfx! It's a testimony not just to Wolfram's clean implementation, but also to the reusability of the Dojo architecture and the widget system in particular. Nice work, guys!